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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460695203321

Autore

Gardiner C. Harvey (Clinton Harvey)

Titolo

Martín López, conquistador citizen of Mexico / / C. Harvey Gardiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1958

©1958

ISBN

0-8131-8609-9

0-8131-6285-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

972.02092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Illustrations; I The Antecedents of One Spaniard; II A Conquistador Puts Aside His Sword; III A Worker-Warrior in Victory; IV Men and Matters in Transition; V The Shape of Things to Come; VI Servant of the First President; VII From Audiencia to Audiencia; VIII Subject of the First Viceroy; IX Late in Life and Past Midcentury; X Patterns for Endless Tomorrows; XI A Man in a Memorable Moment; Critical Essay on Authorities; Glossary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In this study of the life of a Spaniard who came to Mexico as a conquistador and remained as a civilian citizen of New Spain, C. Harvey Gardiner gives his readers a fresh view of the warfare between Spaniard and Indian and of the less dramatic processes of colonization which established European culture in America.Conquest and colonization, usually treated separately in the histories of the period, are here shown as phases in the life of a man who was not conspicuous among the conquerors, but was representative of the Spaniards of his generation who came to the new world in search of opportuni