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xml. This compact synthesis of David J. Weber's prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spain's three-hundred-year tenure on the continent. From the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain's gradual retreat, Weber offers a balanced assessment of the impact of each civilization upon the other.
Jan 15, 2022 · List of maps -- Spanish names and words -- Introduction -- 1: Worlds apart -- 2: First encounters -- 3: Foundations of empire: Florida and New Mexico -- 4: Conquistadors of the spirit -- 5: Exploitation, contention, and rebellion -- 6: Imperial rivalry and strategic expansion: to Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the high plains -- 7: Commercial rivalry, stagnation, and the fortunes of war -- 8 ...
3 I exclude all Latin American countries that did not experience Spanish colonialism (i.e., Brazil, Haiti, and most islands of the Caribbean). Likewise, I exclude those coun-tries that had multiple colonial experiences or did not achieve independence along with the rest of Spanish America in the early 19th century (i.e., Cuba, the Dominican
The Cambridge History of Latin America - December 1984. THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD. The writings of the first ‘discoverers’ of America at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries convey the amazement, and frequently the awe, of Europeans confronted by a new world.
- Jacques Lafaye
- 1984
Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. THE ANTECEDENTS OF CONQUEST. ‘Without settlement there is no good conquest, and if the land is not conquered, the people will not be converted. Therefore the maxim of the conqueror must be to settle.’. The words are those of one of the first historians of the Indies, Francisco Lopez de Gomara. The philosophy behind them is that of ...
- J. H. Elliott, Kenneth Mills
- 1984
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The Spanish set up a bureaucracy to govern the large population of Aztecs and Mayans, whom they had conquered. The new government regulated everything from transatlantic commerce to the makeup of individual settlements. The Law of the Indies, which was passed in 1573, decreed that all Spanish settlements be modeled on the plan of a Spanish village.
