Indian conquistadors : indigenous allies in the conquest of Mesoamerica / edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk.
| Other author | Matthew, Laura E. |
| Other author | Oudijk, Michel R. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2007. |
| Description | xiv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the genre of conquest studies / Susan Schroeder -- Mesoamerican conquistadors in the sixteenth century / Michel R. Oudijk and Matthew Restall -- The conquest in images : stories of Tlaxcalteca and Quauhquecholteca conquistadors / Florine G.L. Asselbergs -- Whose conquest? : Nahua, Zapoteca, and Mixteca allies in the conquest of Central America / Laura E. Matthew -- Concubines and wives : reinterpreting native-Spanish intimate unions in sixteenth-century Guatemala / Robinson A. Herrera -- Conquest, coercion, and collaboration : Indian allies and the campaigns in Nueva Galicia / Ida Altman -- Forgotten allies : the origins and roles of native Mesoamerican auxiliaries and indios conquistadores in the Conquest of Yucatan, 1526-1550 / John F. Chuchiak IV -- The indios conquistadores of Oaxaca's Sierra Norte : from Indian conquerors to local Indians / Yanna Yannakakis -- Nahua Christian warriors in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish / Stephanie Wood -- "By the force of their lives and the spilling of blood" : flechero service and political leverage on a Nueva Galicia frontier / Bret Blosser. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-346). |
| LCCN | 2007012428 |
| ISBN | 9780806138541 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0806138548 (hardcover : alk. paper) |