Dissertations / Theses: 'Spanish conquest'

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McCloskey, Jason A. "Epic conflicts culture, conquest and myth in the Spanish Empire /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3350507.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 8, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: A, page: 0890. Adviser: Steven Wagschal.

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Sweeden, R. Renee. "Personal Archaeology: Poems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500646/.

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A collection of poems focused primarily on rural America and the South, the creative writing thesis also includes material concerned with the history of Mexico, particularly Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The introduction combines a personal essay with critical material discussing and defining the idea of the Southern writer.

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Aguilar, Angie I. "Not Just a Legend: The Gendered Conquest of a Spanish American Society." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/658.

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After the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821) ending Spanish rule, Mexico formed a republic. By the 1880s there was ‘reformation’ in the Mexican church and the growth of ‘modernization’ in a caste based society governed by dictators. Amid all these changes, there was a growth of a nationalist ideology which sought to break free of Spanish roots in search of a new “Mexican” identity. As nationalism unfolded, there was a resurgence of some histories that became legends. I’ve noted a trend among legends with female protagonists, legends tend to portray women in a negative way. Two legends that have caught my attention emerge from the lives of two women from colonial Mexico. One is based on the life of Malinalli (Malintzin), a Nahuatl woman from sixteenth-century Mexico who at a young age was sold into slavery, but eventually became a talented interpreter, advisor and negotiator for Hernán Cortés during conquest. The other legend is about María Magdalena Dávalos y Orosco, a widowed woman from eighteenth-century Mexico who was able to gain control of her husband’s estate and manage many of his properties. More often than not, I’ve found that the legends that transpired from the retelling of an account of past events women’s lives, exclude their accomplishments and emphasize their “deviant” tendencies. Through the use of oral histories, scholarly articles and texts relevant to Malintzin and María Magdalena’s circumstances, I will explore their legends to argue that they have a lot of valuable information to offer.

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Defferding, Victoria Louise. "The Flor Metaphor of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl Literature." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5248.

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The purpose of the present study is to show that the metaphor, flor, of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl literature means much more than the most widely accepted rendering of that metaphor that classic scholars such as Miguel Le6n-Portilla and Angel M. Garibay have attributed to it. Typically flor is referred to as meaning poetry. It is explored in this study as a metaphor that refers to entheogenic plants, their use and the divine words or songs, or poetry, that resulted from their use. As evidence for the theory presented, I examine and discuss various religious practices and important archeological treasures in order to help us understand a broader concept of flor. I then present my findings in a purely literary context. Gordon Wasson's study of pertinent archeological evidences is important to the foundation of this study, especially his studies of mushroom stones, figures of ecstacy and more importantly his study of the statue of Xochipilli, which can be viewed as a three-dimensional chart of the entheogenic substances used by the nobility to create their true or divine words. The rhetoric the nobility used in their meditations was richly poetic, imaginative and filled with metaphors that are elusive to those not wellversed in their noble dialect. As the noble underwent an entheogenic experience, he was transported from the real world via magical flight to the ethereal world of mystical time, space and knowledge. It was there on a search for truth that he would gain wisdom from the divine and be able to express this wisdom through true or divine words in xochitl in cuicatl. Some of the more important themes common to many of the poems studied are the mystery of life, philosophical questions and the importance of friendship. It was found that the additional meaning that we have attributed to the metaphor flor in these poems is an adequate rendering of the metaphor.

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José, Maria Emília Granduque [UNESP]. "A presença de Malinche nas crônicas de indias do século XVI." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93224.

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Este trabalho se propõe a analisar porque a intérprete Malinche foi descrita com tanta intensidade nas Crônicas de Índias do século XVI. Considerando que a história nessa época era entendida segundo o preceito de “mestra da vida” –, em que os feitos positivos do passado deveriam servir como exemplos para o homem do presente – a escrita dos fatos centrava-se nos acontecimentos grandiosos e nos personagens masculinos como atores principais. Desse modo, a história da conquista espanhola ganhou destaque pela importância no cenário europeu e o conquistador Hernán Cortés se tornou o grande responsável pela vitória sobre os índios, dada a sua coragem e façanha, virtudes exaltadas nessa época. Atentando para esse padrão masculino da escrita da história, o questionamento que se faz a partir dessa explicação é saber o que levou os cronistas de Índias a inserir Malinche em seus relatos ao lado de Cortés? Levando em conta o lugar secundário que as mulheres, os intérpretes e os escravos ocupavam na conquista e nas crônicas, por que, então, uma figura que representa tudo isso esteve centrada nesses textos como uma das protagonistas desse evento?
This work proposes to analyze because the interpreter Malinche was described with so much intensity in Chronicles of Indies in the 16th Century. Whereas the history at the time it was understood according to the precept of teacher of life -, in which the made positive of the past should serve as examples for the man of present - the writing of the facts was focused on the events grandiose and characters male as well as major players. In this way, the history of the spanish conquest has gained attention because of the importance in the european arena and the conqueror Hernán Cortés has become the major responsible for victory over the indians, given their courage and achievement, virtues exalted at that time. Looking for this pattern of male writing of history, the questioning that is based on this explanation is what has led the chroniclers of Indies to insert Malinche in their reports on the side of Cortés? Taking into account the place secondary to the women, the interpreters and the slaves occupied in the conquest and the chronicles, why, then, a figure that represents everything that has focused on these texts as one of the protagonists of this event?

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José, Maria Emília Granduque. "A presença de Malinche nas crônicas de indias do século XVI /." Franca : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93224.

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Orientador: Ana Raquel Marques da Cunha Martins Portugal
Banca: Eduardo Natalino dos Santos
Banca: Alberto Ággio
Resumo: Este trabalho se propõe a analisar porque a intérprete Malinche foi descrita com tanta intensidade nas Crônicas de Índias do século XVI. Considerando que a história nessa época era entendida segundo o preceito de "mestra da vida" -, em que os feitos positivos do passado deveriam servir como exemplos para o homem do presente - a escrita dos fatos centrava-se nos acontecimentos grandiosos e nos personagens masculinos como atores principais. Desse modo, a história da conquista espanhola ganhou destaque pela importância no cenário europeu e o conquistador Hernán Cortés se tornou o grande responsável pela vitória sobre os índios, dada a sua coragem e façanha, virtudes exaltadas nessa época. Atentando para esse padrão masculino da escrita da história, o questionamento que se faz a partir dessa explicação é saber o que levou os cronistas de Índias a inserir Malinche em seus relatos ao lado de Cortés? Levando em conta o lugar secundário que as mulheres, os intérpretes e os escravos ocupavam na conquista e nas crônicas, por que, então, uma figura que representa tudo isso esteve centrada nesses textos como uma das protagonistas desse evento?
Abstract: This work proposes to analyze because the interpreter Malinche was described with so much intensity in Chronicles of Indies in the 16th Century. Whereas the history at the time it was understood according to the precept of "teacher of life" -, in which the made positive of the past should serve as examples for the man of present - the writing of the facts was focused on the events grandiose and characters male as well as major players. In this way, the history of the spanish conquest has gained attention because of the importance in the european arena and the conqueror Hernán Cortés has become the major responsible for victory over the indians, given their courage and achievement, virtues exalted at that time. Looking for this pattern of male writing of history, the questioning that is based on this explanation is what has led the chroniclers of Indies to insert Malinche in their reports on the side of Cortés? Taking into account the place secondary to the women, the interpreters and the slaves occupied in the conquest and the chronicles, why, then, a figure that represents everything that has focused on these texts as one of the protagonists of this event?
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Flores, Santis Gustavo Adolfo. "Native American response and resistance to Spanish conquest in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769--1846." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1567990.

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This study focuses on how secular, governmental, and ecclesiastical Hispanic Empire institutions influenced the response and resistance of San Francisco Native American groups from 1769 to 1846. This project draws on late 18th and early 19th century primary Spanish documents and secondary sources to help understand the context of indigenous people's adaptive and response behaviors during this period as well as the nuances of their perspective and experience. Using both electronic and physical documents from a number of archival databases, primary Spanish documents were translated and correlated with baptismal and death mission records. This allowed for formulating alternative perspectives and putting indigenous response and resistance into context. The results of this study indicated that when acts of resistance to the colonial mission system led by charismatic Native American leaders are placed into chronological order, it appears these responses did not consist of isolated incidents. Rather, they appear to be connected through complex networks of communication and organization, and formal Native American armed resistance grew more intensive over time.

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Neto, Raimundo Marques da Cruz. "Em busca das províncias grandiosas: as entradas espanholas quinhentistas na fronteira oriental dos Andes centrais (1538-1561)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-20012015-143625/.

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A presente dissertação analisa o arranjo e a execução de entradas espanholas na fronteira ori-ental dos Andes centrais, entre os anos de 1538 e 1561. Nosso objetivo consiste em avaliar as origens do interesse, os resultados apresentados e as razões para o arrefecimento dos contatos. A região em questão identifica-se com as terras situadas a leste da cidade de Cuzco, parcial-mente inserida no quadrante que os incas chamavam de antisuyu. Algumas vezes, essas em-presas foram além daquele território, alcançando as terras baixas do vale; configurando desse modo a primeira série de contatos sistemáticos com o que hoje chamamos de Amazônia. No período pesquisado, a expansão da conquista em direção a essa região esteve sempre na agen-da dos castelhanos, ainda que não tenham logrado êxito em consolidar esse projeto
This Dissertation examines the planning and execution of the Spanish expeditions on the east-ern border of the Central Andes, between 1538 and 1561. Our purpose is inquire the origins of interest, the results presented and the reasons for the reduction of the contacts. The region in question is identified with the lands located at the east of Cuzco, partly inserted in the incas antisuyu. Sometimes, these expeditions were beyond that territory, reaching the lowlands; thereby configuring the first series of systematic contacts with the region that we now call Amazon. In the period surveyed, the expansion of conquest to these lands always been on the plans of the Castilians, although it has not been successfully

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Alaeddine, Joseph. "Not Spanish, not Nahuatl : a comprehensive study of the varied perspectives of the conquest of Mexico and Hispaniola /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2924.

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Kahn, Aaron M. "Siege, conquest, and the ambivalence of imperial discourse : Cervantes's 'La Numancia' within the 'lost generation' of Spanish drama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424729.

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Manríquez, Viviana. "Purum Aucca, "Promaucaes": de significados, identidades y etnocategorías. Chile central, siglos XVI-XVIII." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113503.

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Purum Aucca, "Promaucaes": About Significances, Identities and Ethnocategories. Central Chile, XVI-XVIII CenturiesThe purpose of this project is to analyze, from an ethnohistoric perspective, the meaning of the term “promaucaes”. The intention is to ponder over the significance these old words had for the Spaniards settled in the “Reino de Chile” during the colonial period. The authors are interested in determining if the term “promaucaes” defined a specific indigenous population or a territory; if it was an adjective that depicted a form of living during of the period, or if it identified a certain group of people that inhabited the territory between the Maipo and the Maule rivers, limits that are usually cited when referring to the “promaucaes” geographic area.The author believe the term “promaucaes” was a representative definition, first elaborated by the Incas and re-elaborated by the Spaniards, to portray the rejection of cultural system these indigenous peoples articulated to oppose the domination and settlement that the Incas and Spaniards tried to impose on them. The term “promaucaes” does not reflect the construction of an ethnic denomination given to these indigenous people, but a classificatory ethno-category that created a exo-identity, with the objective to homogenize a group of heterogeneous identities that operated at a local level in the study area.
El propósito de este trabajo es analizar, desde una perspectiva etnohistórica, el significado del término "promaucaes". Se quiere reflexionar sobre el sentido que estas viejas palabras tuvieron para los españoles avecindados en el "reino de Chile" durante el periodo colonial. Interesa establecer si el término "promaucaes" definió a una población indígena específica o a un territorio, si constituyó un adjetivo que calificó una forma de vivir las circunstancias del periodo o bien identificó a cierto grupo, distinto de aquellos que estaban ubicados al norte del río Maipo o al sur del Maule, límites habitualmente citados para referirse al área geográfica de "promaucaes". Se piensa que el denotativo "promaucaes", dado por los españoles a estas poblaciones, es, primero que nada, una definición elaborada por los incas y reelaborada por los hispanos para representar el rechazo a la dominación y asentamiento que ellos intentaron imponer, por las formas de vida que estas poblaciones indígenas articularon para oponerse a ellos. El término "promaucaes" no reflejaría la construcción de un apelativo étnico dado a los indígenas, sino una etnocategoría clasificatoria o un apelativo cultural que elaboró una exoidentidad sobre estos indígenas, con el objetivo de homogeneizar un panorama de identidades diversas y heterogéneas que operaban a nivel local o "microscópico" en la zona de estudio.

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Salas, Miriam. "Advenedizos y traspuestos: los mitmaquna o mitimaes de Vilcashuamán en su tránsito de los tiempos del Inka al de los "Señores de los mares"." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113610.

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Interlopers and Transplantees: The Mitmaqkuna or Mitimaes of Vilcashuamán in their Transition from the Time of the Inka to the "Lords of the Seas"This article aims to present how the first contact between the spaniards and the people of Vilcashuaman, their subjugation under the hispanic and their rebellion against the colonial system installed by them, came to happen. Also, their andean roots, their past as mitmaqkuna, the persistence of their customs and beliefs, and how the presence of the Inka of Vilcabamba and the Taky Onqoy awoke in them their ancestral conscience, leading them to resist and finally survive, despite the terrible living conditions they suffered.
En este artículo se presenta la forma cómo se produjo el primer contacto entre los españoles y los habitantes de Vilcashuamán, su sometimiento por los hispanos y su rebeldía frente al sistema colonial implantado por ellos. Así también, sus raíces andinas, su pasado de mitmaqkuna, la persistencia de sus costumbres y creencias, y cómo la presencia del Inka de Vilcabamba y el movimiento del Taky Onqoy despertaron en ellos su antigua conciencia, que los llevó a resistir y finalmente a pervivir pese a las terribles condiciones de vida a las que fueron sometidos.

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LaCerva, Daniel Anthony. "Purepècha y Pescado: Food, Status, and Conquest in 16th Century Michoacán." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1503004991079327.

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Regalado, de Hurtado Liliana. "STERN, Steve J., Peu's lndian People and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982;193 p." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122328.

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Pedraglio, Santiago. "Perú: comunicación y diálogos Interculturales." Conexión, 2018. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114697.

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Nearly 500 years ago, the “Cajamarca encounter” between the Spanish conquerors and the Inca Atahualpa symbolized the lack of communication Peru was founded on. This event decisively conditioned the power structure during colonial times and even later in the republic. However, during this prolonged period, many indigenous and Afro-descendants Peruvian cultures, subordinate and marginalized, have experienced dissimilar processes of intercultural communication. There is a growing back and forth flow of communication between cultures considered subordinate and hegemonic. There also are multiple contacts between indigenous cultures and in-between these and others, such as the Afro-descendant. This process of communication –and, simultaneously, affirmation of cultural identities– has gained a new impetus: it unfolds vigorously in rural areas and in cities. Moreover, cultural identities have ceased to exclusively identify with vernacular languages. The State has incorporated some of this; nevertheless, much remains to be done.
La incomunicación original sobre la que se fundó el Perú, simbolizada por el momento del “encuentro” de Cajamarca, entre los conquistadores españoles y elinca Atahualpa, hace cerca de 500 años, condicionó de manera decisiva la organización del poder colonial e, incluso, posteriormente, el poder republicano.Sin embargo, durante este prolongado periodo las diversas culturas indígenasy afrodescendientes peruanas, marginadas y subordinadas, han vivido disímilesprocesos de comunicación intercultural. Crece una comunicación de ida y vueltaentre las culturas consideradas subordinadas y las hegemónicas, y son múltipleslos contactos entre culturas indígenas, y entre estas y otras, como la afrodescendiente. Este proceso de comunicación —y, simultáneamente, de afirmación de identidades culturales— ha cobrado un nuevo ímpetu: se despliega con vigor en las zonas rurales y en las ciudades. Es más, las identidades culturales ya dejaron de identificarse exclusivamente con las lenguas originarias. El Estado ha recogido algo de todo esto; sin embargo, todavía queda mucho por andar.

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Nair, Stella E. "¿"Neoinca" o colonial? la "muerte" de la arquitectura inca y otros paradigmas." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113360.

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"Neo-Inca" or Colonial? The Death of Inca Architecture and other ParadigmsMost indigenous architectural traditions are believed to have ended abruptly with the European invasion of the Americas. In the Andes, scholars have argued that Inca architecture ceased soon after the arrival of the Spaniards and was rapidly replaced with European models. In this paper, I argue that the perceived death of Inca architecture is a false paradigm based on a variety of factors, such as a split in scholarly disciplines, a lack of scholarship on indigenous post contact architecture, and —most importantly— naming practices that have carried mistaken assumptions about the past. Focusing on Chinchero, the private estate of Thupa ‘Inka, as a case study, this paper demonstrates that Inca architecture continued well after the Spanish invasion.
Por lo general, se cree que las tradiciones arquitectónicas indígenas finalizaron bruscamente con la invasión europea de las Américas. En los Andes, los especialistas piensan que la arquitectura inca cesó poco después de la llegada de los españoles y fue reemplazada de manera rápida por modelos europeos. En el presente artículo, la autora plantea que la percepción de la "muerte" de la arquitectura inca es un paradigma falso, cuyo origen se debe a varios factores, tal como la separación en disciplinas académicas, la ausencia de estudios calificados sobre arquitectura indígena posterior a la Conquista, y, sobre todo, las denominaciones modernas, que implican erróneas aseveraciones acerca del pasado. Los trabajos de investigación se concentran en Chinchero, la propiedad privada de Thupa ‘Inka, como un caso en el que se demuestra que la arquitectura inca siguió en existencia después de la invasión española.

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Mantilla, Yuri G. "Francisco de Vitoria, the Spanish scholastic perspective on law and the conquest of the Inca empire : universal justice or ethnocentric colonialism." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185877.

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Throughout the history of international law, there have been diverse interpretations about the nature of Francisco de Vitoria’s ideas. Among the most influential are Critical Legal Studies’ views. According to them, Francisco de Vitoria was the founder of an international legal discourse that was ethnocentric, pro-colonial and imperialistic. As an original contribution to the study of international legal ideas and contrary to CLS interpretations, this study demonstrates that Vitoria’s international normative doctrines were a 16th century effort to promote universal ideas, which had some ethnocentric and pro-colonial distortions. This study considers the importance of the philosophical, theological and anthropological dimensions of Vitoria’s international legal doctrines. It analyses Vitoria’s views on the status of indigenous people, especially the Inca, in the 16th century historical context of the Spanish conquest of indigenous nations. Vitoria’s doctrine on the human nature of indigenous people was the foundation for his recognition of the existence of political communities in the New World, and the participation of indigenous nations in the international community. Vitoria’s rejection of medieval doctrines, on the universal authority of the pope, was the foundation for his dismissal of Spanish legal instruments, such as the Requerimiento, which justified the conquest of the Inca and other indigenous nations. Vitoria’s doctrines on the natural law of nations’ norms of trade, travel and evangelism were a central aspect of his normative justification for the Spanish presence in the New World. In the 16th century Spanish intellectual context, these norms were not inherently ethnocentric. However, because of Vitoria’s disregard of the consequences of the implementation of these norms in the historical context of the Spanish-indigenous nations’ international relations, they could have served to justify the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World. This study shows that Vitoria’s most compelling justification for the Spanish use of force was the ending of the indigenous custom of human sacrifice, which was a violation of the right to life in the internal jurisdictions of indigenous nations.

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Legnani, Nicole Delia. "Love Interest: Figures and Fictions of Venture Capital and the Law in Conquista." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11471.

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Inspired by the visual allegory ("Conquista, embarcáronse a las Indias" fol. 73 of the Nueva corónica), Legnani contends that the development of the laws of peoples (jus gentium) by 16th century Spanish jurists should be analyzed within the corpus of commercial law (lex mercatoria) employed by sea merchants, bankers and mercenaries throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. This dissertation explores the movement from figure to fiction in discourses of capital and violence.
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Mawson, Stephanie Joy. "Incomplete conquests in the Philippine archipelago, 1565-1700." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288555.

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The Spanish colonisation of the Philippines in 1565 opened up trade between China, Latin America and Europe via the Pacific crossing, changing the history of global trade forever. The traditional understanding of the early colonial period in the Philippines suggests that colonial control spread rapidly and peacefully across the islands, ushering in dramatic changes to the social, political and economic environment of the archipelago. This dissertation argues by contrast that the extent of Spanish control has been overstated - partially as a by-product of an over-reliance on religious and secular chronicles that sought to magnify the role and interests of the colonial state. Through extensive archival work examining different sites of colonial authority and power, I demonstrate that Philippine communities contested and limited the nature of colonisation in their archipelago. In making this argument, I challenge prevalent assumptions of indigenous passivity in the face of imperial expansion. By demonstrating the agency of Southeast Asians, particular actors come to the fore in each of the chapters: Chinese labourers, indigenous elites, fugitives and apostates, unpacified mountain communities, native priestesses and Moro slave raiders. The culture and social organisation of these Southeast Asian communities impacted on the nature of Spanish imperialism and the capacity for the Spanish to retain and extend their control. Throughout the seventeenth century, the Spanish presence within the archipelago was always tenuous. A number of communities remained outside of Spanish control for the duration of the century, while still others oscillated between integration and rebellion, by turns participating in and resisting the consolidation of empire. These communities continued to maintain their local and regional economies and customs. Thus, by the end of the seventeenth century, imperial control remained fragmented, partial and incomplete. The dissertation contributes not only to the historiography of the Philippines - which remains under-explored - but also to the historiographies of Colonial Latin America, Southeast Asia and early modern empires. Conceptualising the Philippines as a frontier space helps to overturn the foundations of the myth of a completed conquest. This dissertation thus raises questions about the inevitability of empire by arguing that indigenous communities were active respondents to Spanish colonisation attempts and that indigenous traditions and culture in this region were both resilient and enduring in the face of colonial oppression.

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Folsom, Bradley. "Spanish La Junta de los Rios: The institutional Hispanicization of an Indian community along New Spain's northern frontier, 1535-1821." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9103/.

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Throughout the colonial period, the Spanish attempted to Hispanicize the Indians along the northern frontier of New Spain. The conquistador, the missionary, the civilian settler, and the presidial soldier all took part in this effort. At La Junta de los Rios, a fertile area inhabited by both sedentary and semi-sedentary Indians, each of these institutions played a part in fundamentally changing the region and its occupants. This research, relying primarily on published Spanish source documents, sets the effort to Hispanicize La Junta in the broader sphere of Spain's frontier policy.

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Monteiro, Robson. "Religi?o no Contexto da Conquista da Am?rica Espanhola a partir do pensamento de Bartolom? de Las Casas." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2017. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/981.

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The main aim of this discussion is to pursue, from Bartolom? de Las Casas (1484- 1566) thought, how the religion crises process in the period of Christianity have developed, which outlines in the enterprise of conquer and evangelization of the Spanish America (1492). By the end of XV century, and the beginning of XVI, Portugal and Spain, saw themselves in a position of replace the problem regarding Salvation in relevance, that is, the question that imposes: do the new peoples which are going to be known, have the same right to the benefit of Christian salvation, as much as the Europeans? Therefore, it`s possible to realize in Las Casas the viability of the proposal about the absolute respect to the consciences, it`s position in defense to the Indian peoples, the debate about slavery and the search for a peaceful colonization. After all, there were many previous process, dynamics, at their moments, they based habits, dynamics, at their moments they based habits, and dynamics, and at their moments, and they based habits and types of behaviors, which would indicate a new religious awareness. Even though, in the perspective that Las Casas had chosen, it had utopic structure. In this context, religion has become reference regarding the colonial expansion by being sat as core that makes possible the supposed inferiority from the conquered peoples. Therefore, it is going to identify the religious practices from Indian and African people as idolatrous, primitive and irrational, which will lead to the polemic between truth and false religion. Found in the ?Controversies de Valladolid? (1550- 1551), having as background the occurrences from the Protestant Reformation, the new postures from the internal religious orders, as the religiosity of new consequed people, it`s resistance and the process of religious tolerance.
O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de aprofundar, a partir do pensamento de Bartolom? de Las Casas (1484-1566), como se desenvolveu o processo de crise religiosa no per?odo de cristandade, que se delineia no empreendimento de conquista e evangeliza??o da Am?rica Espanhola (1492). Ao final do s?culo XV, e in?cio do s?culo XVI, Portugal e Espanha, veem-se na condi??o de recolocar a problem?tica da Salva??o em relev?ncia, ou seja, a pergunta que se imp?e: os novos povos que v?o sendo conhecidos, tem o mesmo direito ao benef?cio da salva??o crist?, tanto quanto os europeus? Portanto, percebe-se em Las Casas a viabilidade da proposta do respeito absoluto ?s consci?ncias, o seu posicionamento na defesa dos povos ind?genas, o debate sobre a escravid?o e a busca por uma coloniza??o pac?fica. Afinal, v?rios processos e din?micas anteriores a ele, e em seu momento alicer?avam pr?ticas e costumes que indicariam uma nova consci?ncia religiosa. Mesmo que, na perspectiva que Las Casas tenha aderido, fosse uma estrutura??o mais assimilacionista e ut?pica. Nesse contexto, a religi?o tornou-se refer?ncia de sentido da expans?o colonial, ao ser instrumentalizada como n?cleo que possibilitaria a suposta inferioridade das popula??es conquistadas. O que caracterizar? a identifica??o das pr?ticas religiosas dos povos ind?genas e africanos como idol?tricas, primitivas e irracionais. O que levar? ? pol?mica entre falsa e verdadeira religi?o. Expressa na chamada Controv?rsia de Valladolid (1550-1551), tendo como pano de fundo as ocorr?ncias da Reforma Protestante, as novas posturas no interno das ordens religiosas, assim, como as religiosidades das novas popula??es conquistadas, sua resist?ncia e o processo de toler?ncia religiosa.

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Soliz, Cristine. "The Oklahoma codex : Spanish matters in Indian text : the history of the Indies up to the conquest of Mexico, taken from the library of this court, Madrid in October of 1778, book two : chapters 1-30 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6691.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004.
"The following is an annotated English translation of the first thirty chapters of Book Two of the Oklahoma Codex, a paleographic Spanish manuscript book in the archives of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... The manuscript codex is catalogued in the Museum's Hispanic Documents collection as MS #185."--Pref. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-338).

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Lafuente, Eva. "La représentation de l’Amérique hispanique dans la littérature et l’iconographie espagnoles entre 1838 et 1885." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOU20087.

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Loin d’avoir provoqué l’indifférence des Espagnols, l’Amérique hispanique a attiré le regard péninsulaire au lendemain des indépendances américaines et encouragé une production littéraire et iconographique continue depuis le début de l’ère isabelline jusqu’aux premiers temps de la Restauration. Constitué de près de 300 œuvres dramatiques, romanesques etplastiques, le corpus réuni et analysé dans le cadre de cette thèse montre qu’une production littéraire et artistique sur l’Amérique hispanique traverse bien le XIXe siècle péninsulaire. Afin d’en dégager les caractéristiques et l’impact sur l’imaginaire collectif espagnol, nous avons mis en lumière les spécificités des modes de production et de diffusion de chacun des supports artistiques. Cette production, fortement conditionnée par les moules artistiques préétablis, a favorisé la construction d’une imagerie américaine collective, notamment à travers la cristallisation d’images type qui circulent entre les différents supports. Dès lors, si les oeuvres elles-mêmes sont pour la plupart tombées dans l’oubli, elles demeurent néanmoins le reflet du regard porté par les Espagnols sur le continent à une période charnière des relations entre l’Espagne et l’Amérique hispanique
Far from leaving the Spaniards indifferent, Hispanic America has drawn Spanish attention after its independence and fostered a continuous literary and iconographic production since the beginning of the era isabellina to the early days of the Restoration. Consisting of nearly 300 plays, novels, paintings and sculptures, the corpus collected and analyzed in this thesis shows the existence of an actual literary and artistic production about Hispanic America through the nineteenth century in Spain. In order to identify its characteristics and its impact on the social imaginary of Spain, we have highlighted the specific modes of production and distribution of each artistic media. This production, heavily influenced by preexisting artistic standards, has favored the construction of a collective American imagery, particularly through the crystallization of images that circulate between the different media. Therefore, although most of these works have sunk into oblivion, they remain a reflection of the way the Spaniards looked at the continent and of the need to redefine and legitimize the relationship between Spain and the young American republics

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Cowan, Grace. "CHILE: Mi Conquista, de Norte a Sur." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/10.

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My thesis is a creative expression in poetry about my study abroad experience in Chile. During my time in Chile I traveled all over the country and tried to experience as much of the culture as possible. These poems speak of different parts of the country that I visited and different cultural aspects to which I was exposed. The work also includes photos from my travels to accompany several of my poems. This thesis was written with the hope that others might be able to better understand my semester in Chile.

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Feile, Tomes Maya Caterina. "Neo-Latin America : the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic : studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273742.

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This is an investigation of the epic poetry produced in and about the Ibero-American world during the early modern period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) in trilingual perspective: in addition to the more familiar Spanish- and Portuguese-language texts, consideration is also––and, for the purposes of the thesis, above all––given to material in Latin. Latin was the third of the international literary languages of the Iberian imperial world; it is also by far the most neglected, having fallen between the cracks of modern disciplinary boundaries in their current configurations. The thesis seeks to rehabilitate the Latin-language component as a fully-fledged member of the Ibero-American epic tradition, arguing that it demands to be analysed with reference not only to the classical and classicising traditions but to those same themes and concerns––in this case, the centre|periphery binary––as are investigated for counterparts when in Spanish or Portuguese. The crucial difference is that––while the ends may be the same––the means of thematising these issues derive in form and signifying power from interactions with the conceptual vocabularies and frameworks of the Greco-Roman epic tradition. How is America represented and New World space figured––even produced––in a poetic idiom first developed by ancient Mediterranean cultures with no conception whatsoever of the continent of the western hemisphere? At the core is one such long neglected Ibero-American Latin-language epic by a figure who lived across the Iberian imperial world: the 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza, 1777) by Catalan-born Jesuit José Manuel Peramás. Peramás’s epic––which has never been the subject of a literary-critical study before––is offered as a test case: an exercise in analysing a Latin-language Hispanic epic qua Hispanic epic and setting it into Ibero-American literary-cultural context. This is to be understood in relation to the field of so-called ‘New World poetics’: an at present emergent zone of inquiry within Iberian colonial studies which until now has been developing almost completely without reference to the Latin-language portion of the corpus.

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Aman, Robert. "Indígenas, conquista y esclavitud en América Latina : Visión histórica representada en libros escolares suecos y colombianos." Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1559.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the indigenous people and the culture, the conquest and slavery in Latin America are represented in Swedish high school schoolbooks in comparison with their equals in Colombia. The aim is to discover whether there are any differences or similarities between the reproductions in both countries. The theoretical part discusses the difficulties involved to determine both a Latin-American identity as well as a Colombian one. This is due to the fact that identity in Latin America is a product of colonization, which is to say that it came into being through the people who conquered the region because, prior to their arrival, Latin America didn’t exist as we know it. Multiculturalism within the region complicates this construction since different ethnical groups and nations construct their memory and ‘wear’ these concepts from which they get their proper sense of the past in function with the present and how it aspires to identify itself with the future. This means that not just one Latin America exists, but many. Part of the problem is that Latin Americans want to be the ‘other’, meaning the white, the occidental, the European or the North American. The study concludes that there exists a European point of view in the books of both countries in their way of representing the history of the region.

El presente estudio compara la representación de la historia de América Latina en libros escolares en Suecia con sus equivalentes en Colombia. El objetivo es indagar si existen diferencias y similitudes entre la reproducción del mismo hecho histórico en ambos países. La representación de los hechos históricos de la historia latinoamericana que son indagados son los indígenas y su cultura, la conquista y la esclavitud. Los puntos de partida teóricos discuten el problema para determinar tanto una identidad latinoamericana como una colombiana. Esto fundamentado en el hecho de que la identidad de los latinoamericanos es un producto de la colonización, es decir que es construida por otros, porque antes de la llegada de los españoles a América Latina no existía como tal.

El multiculturismo dentro de la región complica la construcción de la identidad, así como, diferentes grupos étnicos y naciones construyen su memoria y llevan esos conceptos desde los cuales le dan su propio sentido al pasado en función con el presente y como se aspira a identificarse en el futuro. Esto significa que no existe solamente una América Latina, sino muchas.

El problema es que los latinoamericanos tienen latentes deseos de ser como el “otro”, es decir el blanco, el occidental o el europeo. Como está representado el “otro” es un concepto usado por Tzvetan Todorov, y su esquema de análisis es utilizado en este estudio para concluir cómo están representados los temas ya mencionados: los indígenas y su cultura, la conquista y la esclavitud en libros escolares del instituto. El estudio concluye que existe un punto de vista eurocéntrico en la forma de representar estos hechos de la historia de América Latina en los libros escolares de ambos países.

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Nava, Tomas Hidalgo. "Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/146.

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This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' Balún-Canán and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in the middle of external influences that complicate the construction of a new mestizo consciousness. In order to attain that consciousness and free themselves from their divided selves, these children receive the aid of an indigenous mentor who teaches them how to establish a dialogue with their past, nature, and their social reality. The protagonists undertake that negotiation by transgressing the rituals of a society immersed in colonial dual thinking. They also create mechanisms to re-interpret their past and tradition in order to create an image of themselves that is not imposed by the status quo. In both novels, the protagonists have to undergo similar processes to overcome their identity crises, including transculturation, the creation of sites of memory, and a transition from orality to writing. Each of them resorts to creative writing and becomes a sort of shaman who pulls together the "spirits" from the past, selects them, and organizes them in a narration of childhood that is undertaken from adulthood. The results of this enterprise are completely different in the cases of both protagonists because the historical and social contexts vary. The boy in Bless Me, Ultima can harmoniously gather the elements to construct his identity, while the girl in Balún-Canán fails because of the pressures of a male-centered and highly racist society.

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Daitsman, Andrew L. "The dynamic of conquest Spanish motivations in the New World /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17429942.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.
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Marroquín, Jaime 1971. "La historia de los prejuicios en América : La Conquista." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29638.

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This is a history of the relationship between prejudices and reality during the first century of the Spanish Conquest and colonization of America. The study deals particularly with the Discovery and Conquest of La Española and La Nueva España. The authors studied are Cristóbal Colón, Ramón Pané, Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de las Casas, Hernán Cortés, Francisco López de Gómara, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Vasco de Quiroga, Toribio de Benavente "Motolinía", Diego Durán, Bernardino de Sahagún and José de Acosta. There is a change in the perception of reality during the Renaissance. It brings a separation between the realms of the earthly and the divine as well as a glorification of the self, known today as individualism. There is also a great tension between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Spain. A way of seeing the world that privileges the divine fights ferociously with another one that suddenly has an immense need to understand the real, concrete world. This tension makes the study of the early descriptions and interpretations of America particularly interesting. They document the ways in which the Western imagination learns to apprehend reality in the very beginnings of the Modern Age. The writers of the Western Indies struggle with their words, their ideas, their faith and their own life in their attempt to describe and understand the New World. The process is highly complex and superbly exemplifies Marx's concept of ideology: the awareness that there is always a real and an imaginary way interacting with each other when we try to live and understand reality. Idealizations, prejudices, inventions, fantasies, destructions and abuses coexist in the texts of the "Cronistas de Indias" with a heroic effort to describe, understand, classify and explain a reality that is totally alien to their eyes and their mental schemes. This effort reaches an end with the triumph of the Counterreformation in Spain. All the early history of the New World had to be proof of a divine plan and so, many of the truths, methods and ideas that the early writers of America had gained, with a truly heroic effort to overcome ideological limitations, started to get lost once again.
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Reeves, René. "The limits of imperial power Spanish treatment of Native Americans during the conquest of Guatemala, 1524-1554 /." 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26061766.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1992.
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Schaposchnik, Ana E. "Facing the Spanish Conquest at the frontiers. The Diaguitas of Catamarca rebellions and social fabric (Argentina, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40880820.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998.
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Peterson, Heather Rose. "Heavenly influences : the cosmic and social order of New Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-613.

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This is the story of Spanish belonging in New Spain and the creation of New Spaniards. Tracing Spanish perceptions of place, the body, belonging, and Indian mortality, as well as constructions of “nativeness” and “Spanishness” from the conquest, this work does three things. First it examines the ideological constructs behind Spanish belonging, and the ideas that Spaniards brought with them about their bodies and their relationship to the environment. Second it follows the progression of these ideas through the first three generations of Spanish colonization, paying particular attention to the way that political rivalries, the exigencies of the crown, and Indian mortality affected discourse on belonging and identity. Finally, it captures a moment at the turn of the seventeenth century, when residents of New Spain began to re-imagine their belonging and their relationship to the land and its original inhabitants.
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Kulisheck, Jeremy. "The archaeology of Pueblo population change on the Jemez Plateau, A.D. 1200 to 1700 : the effects of Spanish contact and conquest (New Mexico) /." 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3167262.

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Cruikshank, Stephen. "Cuba and the neobaroque: twentieth-century reformations of Cuban identity." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4668.

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This thesis project explores the connection between Cuban identity and the twentieth-century Neobaroque. The paper approaches the Neobaroque as a concept that reoriginates or "refracts" culture, implying a relationship between Baroque forms and post-colonial Latin America that creates a transformation of cultural expression. Furthermore, the Neobaroque is seen relating to questions of cultural identity, post-colonialism, transculturation, mestizaje, and Latin American modernity. The Neobaroque's relevancy with Cuba is stipulated in twentieth-century writings of three Cuban authors known as the Cuban triumvirate: José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, and Severo Sarduy. Similar themes of these writers concerning the Neobaroque's connection with the urban environment of Havana as well as connections to José Martí's writing Nuestra América are highlighted as key components connecting the Neobaroque with Cuban culture.
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Limage-Montesinos, Lupita J. "Conquista y mestizaje en el Tahuantinsuyu : elementos religiosos y literarios en dos crónicas andinas." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/7652.

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Hanzlíková, Inka. "Obraz indiánské kultury Peru v raných kronikách." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-309290.

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The aim of this thesis was to fully understand and interpret the early texts focused on the culture of the Inca Empire and the image of an Indian in the Spanish colony - Peru, as well as establishing the main reasons of publishing work of each of the selected authors and introducing their basic opinions and views on the native culture of the Ands' area. The research is focused on the Inca Empire and each data is divided into thematic groups. Apart from the basic data, the thoroughly studied materials give us details on many details of the society and culture. The subjects of the analysis were the ten main sources of Spanish conquista, whose authors are: Antonio de Hererra, Pedro Pizarro Méndez, Cristóbal de Mena, Francisco de Xeréz, José de Acosta, Pedro Cieza de León, Juan de Betanzos, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa a Martín de Murúa.

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