...Susan Migden Socolow Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas . By Trexler Richard C. . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1995 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 292 pp. Cloth . $29.95...

...Donald E. Worcester Cycles of Conquest is of considerable interest to all Latin Americanists, a remarkable effort. More than this, it is worth the attention of anyone concerned with the effects of conquest and transculturation. While it is an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the...

...Carl B. Compton The Broken Spears. The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico . Edited and introduction by León-Portilla Miguel . Boston , 1962 . Beacon Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 168 . $5.00 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 This is a...

... preliminary remarks that Cortés “generally remains unheard and condemned” and that “in a time of conformity and fear, he appears a rash adventurer.” In point of fact Cortés has had a generally good press in United States writing on the Conquest since the time of Prescott; only an occasional biographer, such...

...Samuel Shapiro A History of Cuba and Its Relations with the United States . Volume I. 1492-1845. From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera . By Foner Philip S. . New York , 1962 . International Publishers . Notes. Index . Pp. 255 . $3.75 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University...

... instant conversion supplies the happy ending to a “folk” drama that for at least a century has made the rounds of Guatemalan church plazas on titular saints’ days. Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 The Dance of the Conquest of Guatemala . By Bode Barbara . New Orleans...

...John J. TePaske The Aboriginal Population of Central Mexico on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest . By Borah Woodrow and Cook Sherburne F. . Berkeley , 1963 . University of California Press . Notes. Maps. Tables. Bibliography . Pp. 157 . Paper . Copyright 1964 by Duke...

...Pedro Carrasco The Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest . By Soustelle Jacques . Translated by O’Brian Patrick . New York , 1962 . The Macmillan Company . Daily Life Series . Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiv , 319...

...Lewis Hanke Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Has the Spanish conquest of America been the event of Latin American history most bitterly and most continuously discussed during the last 450 years? ** No one familiar with the hundreds of items recorded in the first 25...

... a persistent. if only partially successful, lobbyist on behalf of the soldiers of the Conquest. Two trips to Spain to plead his personal case before the king and the Council of the Indies made him no less the spokesman for others like him. His True History was in part a propaganda document aimed...

...Harvey L. Johnson A Cultural History of Spanish America. From Conquest To Independence . By Picón-Salas Mariano . Translated by Leonard Irving A. . Berkeley , 1962 . University of California Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 192 . $5.00 . Copyright 1963 by Duke...

...C.C.G. The Horses of the Conquest . By Cunningham Graham R. B. , Edited by Denhardt Robert Moorman , Illustrations by Sheppard J. Craig . ( Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press , 1949 . Pp. xvii , 145 . Illustrations, bibliography . $5.00 .) Copyright 1950...

...C. Harvey Gardiner Dogs of the Conquest . By Varner John Grier and Varner Jeanette Johnson . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1983 . Maps. Illustrations. Epilog. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 238 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

...Manoel da Silveira Cardozo The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century . By Fernández-Armesto Felipe . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . Notes. Tables. Appendix. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 244 . Cloth...

...Steve J. Stern 85 A detailed presentation of this movement’s history in Huamanga lies beyond the scope of this article. For an extended discussion, see Stern, “The Challenge of Conquest,” pp. 101–143; see Juan M. Ossio, ed., Ideología mesiánica del mundo andino (Lima, 1973), especially the...

...Ralph H. Vigil Seeds of Discord: New Mexico in the Aftermath of the American Conquest, 1846-1861 . By Sunseri Alvin B. . Chicago , 1979 . Nelson-Hall . Chronology. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 195 . Cloth. $14.95 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University...

... Hispanic styles and relationships, thereby buttressing colonial domination” (p. 159). The book is coherently organized. In the first section, Stern surveys the pre-Columbian landscapes, both physical and human. He next examines the Spanish conquest of Huamanga and stresses the Europeans’ strategy of...

... and Aztec, and perhaps others in the New World, were in some manner far more “pre-adapted” to the Spanish conquest state than is generally assumed. Unfortunately, despite its stated purpose of settlement pattern analysis and correlation of settlement patterns with parameters of the Quichean...

...Jack D. L. Holmes The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Spanish Conquest, 1565–1568 . By Lyon Eugene . Gainesville , 1976 . The University Presses of Florida . Map. Illustrations. Appendixes. Tables. Diagrams. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix...