Primary Sources: Print Collections
Spain under the Bourbons, 1700-1833 by Call Number: DP192 .H27 1973ISBN: 0872492893Publication Date: 1973-05-01
Modern Spain by Call Number: DP233 .M59 2003ISBN: 9780812237177Publication Date: 2003-05-16While the Civil War of 1936-39 dominated Spain's twentieth-century history, the country's fateful and bloody division into left and right had its roots in the events of the Napoleonic era. In Modern Spain: A Documentary History, the first broad-ranging collection in English of writings from this entire period, Jon Cowans presents 76 documents to trace the history of Spain as it struggled for political and social stability and justice through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with Napoleon's occupation of Spain in 1808, the selections include decrees of the liberal Cádiz Cortes of 1810-14, an 1841 plea for the revival of the Catalan culture and language, an 1873 anarchist manifesto, an 1892 argument for the education of women, a Basque nationalist's 1895 diatribe against Spaniards, José Ortega y Gasset's Invertebrate Spain, General Francisco Franco's 1936 manifesto and his 1940 letter to Hitler, the Spanish bishops' 1950 press release on immorality and indecency in the mass media, King Juan Carlos's speech on the attempted coup d'état of 1981, and a 1999 report by SOS Racismo on immigration and xenophobia in contemporary Spain. Covering political, cultural, social, and economic history, Modern Spain: A Documentary History provides a valuable opportunity to explore the history of Spain through primary sources from the Second Republic, the Civil War, and the Franco dictatorship, as well as from the period of Spain's profound transformation following the ascension of King Juan Carlos in 1975.
Colonial Latin America by Call Number: F1412 .C642 2002ISBN: 0842029966Publication Date: 2002-08-01Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a revision of SR Books' popular Colonial Spanish America. The new edition welcomes a third co-editor and, most significantly, embraces Portuguese and Brazilian materials. Other fundamental changes include new documents from Spanish South America, the addition of some key color images, plus six reference maps, and a decision to concentrate entirely upon primary sources. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its use of primary sources to focus upon people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects. The book's illustrations and documents are accompanied by introductions which provide context and invite discussion. These sources feature social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in Spanish and Portuguese American colonial societies. Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Latin America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing students to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar names and voices are included-conquerors, chroniclers, sculptors, and preachers-other, far less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration and contact; religious and cultural change; slavery and society, miscegenation, and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, as well as accompanying changes in economies and labor. This sourcebook allows students and teachers to consider the thoughts and actions of a wide range of people who were making choices and decisions, pursuing ideals, misperceiving each other, experiencing disenchantment, absorbing new pressures, breaking rules as well as following them, and employing strategies of survival which might involve both reconciliation and opposition. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History has been assembled with teaching and class discussion in mind. The book will be an excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses and for seminars on the colonial period.
Mesoamerican Voices by Call Number: PM3055 .M47 2005ISBN: 0521812798Publication Date: 2005-11-07Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.
Colonial Lives by Call Number: F1410 .C725 2000ISBN: 0195125126Publication Date: 1999-12-23Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, as well as the day-to-day lives of the colonies' inhabitants.Intended to complement textbooks such as Burkholder and Johnson's Colonial Latin America by presenting students with primary sources -- the raw materials on which the facts in other textbooks are based -- this reader strives to illustrate the impact of issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality,culture and religion in the daily lives of both natives and colonists alike. The concerns, struggles and perspectives of the inhabitants of colonial Latin America are reflected in transcripts of civil and criminal court cases, administrative reviews, ecclesiastical investigations, Inquisitiontrials, wills, and letters the editors have included in this reader.Each document is prefaced by an introduction that places it in the social and political context of the period. The book also includes a glossary of terms and lists of suggested further readings. Most uniquely, the book offers helpful thematic cross-referencing sections and an index of themes whichallow instructors to easily adapt the book to their courses and to assign readings according to the criteria of their own specific curriculums.
Afro-Latino Voices by Call Number: DT16.5 .A37 2009ISBN: 9780872209930Publication Date: 2009-11-15A landmark scholarly achievement . . . With judicious commentary by several of the leading experts in the field, this book dramatically expands the canon of texts used to study the black Atlantic and the African diaspora, and captures the tenor of the 'black voice' as it collectively engaged the power of colonial institutions. In no uncertain terms, Afro-Latino Voices will prove to be a remarkable pedagogical tool and an influential resource, inspiring deeper comparative work on the African diaspora. --Ben Vinson III, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
History of Latin American Civilization: sources and interpretations by Call Number: F1408.3 .H32ISBN: 0416121101Publication Date: 1967- History of the Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, 55 volumes byAvailable online: Click the title above
History of the Indies by Call Number: F1411 .C4275 1971ISBN: 0061315400Publication Date: 1971-01-01Bartolome de las Casas empezó a componer una Historia de las Indias en la Española en 1527. Fue trabajando en ella a lo largo de los años siguientes, con más intensidad a partir de su retorno a España en 1547. Quiso narrar la historia del continente hasta mediados del siglo XVI pero el texto manuscrito que se conserva, en tres volúmenes (1), solo llega hasta 1520, lo que ha llevado a algunos investigadores a postular que pudo existir un cuarto volumen hoy perdido. Las Casas legó el manuscrito original inédito de su Historia al Colegio de San Gregorio de Valladolid en noviembre 1559.(1)Para esta edición hemos respetado la primera edición de 1875 en la que se dividió la obra en 5 tomos- An account of the conquest of Guatemala in 1524 by Pedro de Alvarado, edited by Sedley J. Mackie, with a facsimile of the Spanish original byCall Number: F1437 .A466 1969Publication Date: 1969
The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition by Call Number: F1230 .V5713 2006ISBN: 9780807055007Publication Date: 2006-11-15For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. León-Portilla's new Postscript reflects upon the critical importance of these unexpected historical accounts.
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca by ISBN: 9780803215283Publication Date: 2003-03-01This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience.
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez by ISBN: 9780292726314Publication Date: 2011-07-01In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ram#65533;rez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sig#65533;enza y G#65533;ngora to write down Ram#65533;rez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ram#65533;rez has long been regarded as a work of fiction--in fact, as Latin America's first novel--but Fabio L#65533;pez L#65533;zaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ram#65533;rez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. L#65533;pez L#65533;zaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650-1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war.- The discovery and conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521 byCall Number: F1230 .D537 M38 1956Publication Date: 1956
- The discovery of Yucatan by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a translation of the original texts with an introduction and notes by Henry R. Wagner byCall Number: F1376 .W14 1969Publication Date: 1942
Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 To 1806 by Call Number: 9781624667527ISBN: 9781624667527Publication Date: 2018-09-15"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and indigenous women who protest abuse; of women who defend themselves from charges of witchcraft, cross-dressing, and infanticide; of women who travel throughout the empire or are left behind by the men in their lives; and of women's strategies for making a living in a world of cross-cultural exchanges. Jaffary and Mangan's excellent Introduction and annotations provide context and guide readers to think critically about crucial issues related to the intersections of gender with conquest, religion, work, family, and the law." --Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota
Bartolome de las Casas by Call Number: F1411 .C4273 1971ISBN: 0394315375Publication Date: 1971-01-01- Relation of the discovery and conquest of the kingdoms of Peru. Translated into English and annotated by Philip Ainsworth Means byCall Number: F3442 .P78 1969Publication Date: 1969
First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega by ISBN: 9781315582467Publication Date: 2017-05-15Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continued in First Series 45. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1869.
Victors and Vanquished by Call Number: F1230 .V53 2000ISBN: 0312154089Publication Date: 1999-12-29How did a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrow a mighty Aztec empire in 16th century Mexico? Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies - many recently uncovered - of indigenous Nahua survivors gathered by Bernardino de Sahagun, Victors and Vanquished demonstrates how personal interests, class and ethnic biases, and political considerations can influence interpretation of events. A substantial introduction is followed by nine chronological sections that illuminate the major events and personalities in this historical episode, and reveal the changing attitudes toward European expansionism.
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru by ISBN: 0870818074Publication Date: 2005-09-01The penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty narrated this first-hand account of the Spanish invasion of Peru to a Spanish missionary in 1570; available in English for the first time. Takes a critical look at how the Incan society challenged the Spanish conquest.
The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain During the Years 1772-1776 by ISBN: 9781409413998Publication Date: 2010-07-28Instructions, minutes, despatches, and other documents from Spanish and English archives, relating to exploration of the East Indies, translated into English and compiled, with notes and an introduction.. Continued in Second Series 36 and 43. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1913. Owing to technical constraints the section of the large general chart of the islands, constructed by Don Juan Hervd, showing Huahine, Ra'iatea, Tahaa, and Porapora is not included.
