Kathleen Ann Myers: 3 books
In the Shadow of Cortés
Conversations Along the Route of Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Five hundred years ago, the army of conquest led by Hernan Cortés marched hundreds of miles across a rugged swath of land from Veracruz on the Mexican Caribbean to the capital city of the Aztecs, now Mexico City. This journey was the catalyst for profound cultural and political change in Mesoamerica....
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America
A New History for a New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of...
Neither Saints Nor Sinners
Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.