Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570: 61 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 61)

Inga Clendinnen
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 10/2/2003
EAN 9780521820318, ISBN10: 0521820316

Hardcover, 264 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm
Language: English

This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.

Part I. Spaniards
1. Explorers
2. Conquerors
3. Settlers
4. Missionaries
5. Conflict
6. Crisis
7. Attrition
8. Retrospections
Epilogue. The hall of mirrors
Part II. Indians
9. Finding out
10. Connections
11. Continuities
12. Assent
Epilogue. Confusion of tongues.