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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Colonial Latin America

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See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

Contents

 * Colonial Latin America
 * Conquest and Exploitation
   * Indigenous Voices
   * Mexico
   * Peru
   * Profits
   * Criticism
 * The Creation of Latin American Cultures
   * Mexico
   * Peru
   * Paraguay
   * Brazil

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Colonial Latin America
 * WEB La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas [Internet
   Archive backup here]
 * WEB Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas [Was At UPenn,
   now Internet Archive]
 * Map: A 17th-century map of the Americas
 * Map: Spanish and Portuguese empires in 1790
 * Map: Countries in Latin America by date of independence

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The Conquest and Exploitation of the Americas

 * WEB Spanish Conquest of Native America [Was At floridahistory, now Internet
   Archive]
 * Wikipedia: Spanish colonization of the Americas
 * Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales: The Founding of St. Augustine, 1565 [At
   this Site]
 * Indigenous Voices
   * Inca Creation Myth, written c 1556 [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
   * The Popul-Vuh [At Sacred Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
     The Mayan Creation myth.
   * Codex Mendoza 1541/42(?) [Wikimedia] + Wikipedia article
   * WEB Mesoamerican Manuscripts [Bodleian]
 * Mexico
   * WEB The Conquest of Mexico [AHA] [Internet Archive backup here]
     An excellent website with primary sources by Nancy Fitch on the conquest of
     Mexico
     * Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex)
     * Letters from Hernán Cortés
     * Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
     * 2ND Nancy Fitch: General Discussion of the Primary Sources Used in This
       Project
   * Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, 1519 [At this Site]
   * 2ND William Hickling Prescott: The History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843
     [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
   * 2ND William Hickling Prescott: The History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843
     [Project Gutenberg]
   * Hernan Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V, 1520 [At this Site]
     A description of his conquest and its riches.
   * Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
   * Codex Quetzalecatzin [At Library of Congress]
     Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon"
     family from 1480-1593
 * Peru
   * 2ND William Hickling Prescott: The History of the Conquest of Peru,
     [Project Gutenberg]
   * Pedro de Cieza de Léon: Chronicles of the Incas, 1540 [At this Site]
 * Profits
   * Phillip II of Spain (1527-1598): Two Letters on the Gold of the Indies,
     1559 [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
   * Wikipedia: Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries
     Much of world trade was structured by the massive amounts of silver
     available in the Americas and the comparatively high value of silver in
     China. Much of the silver simply went across the Pacific via Manila.
   Criticism
   * Bartolomeo De La Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,
     1542, short excerpts [Was At Clinch Valley College, now Internet Archive]
   * Bartolomeo De La Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,
     1542, full text [Wikisource]
   * Bartolomeo De La Casas: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indie,
     1542, full text [Project Gutenberg]

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The Creation of Latin American Cultures

 * Biographic Sources On Spaniards In The New World, 16th-17th Centuries  [At
   this Site]
 * The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 [At this Site]
   Spain's pro-Indian laws.
 * Álvar Núñe-beza de Vaca: Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542,
   translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey (1963, copyright not renewed), full
   text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
   "The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving
   officer of a royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically
   miscarried."
 * Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain, 1561 [At this Site
 * Mexico
   * Antonio Valerian: Nican Mopohua, (or Huei Tlamahuitzoltica) [At
     Sancta.org]. [Internet Archive version here]
     The story of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, who is said to have appeared in 1531.
     Written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, around the middle of the sixteenth
     century. This copy published in Nahuatl by Luis Lasso de la Vega in 1649.
   * Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in Mexico City, 1612 
     [At this Site]
   * Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poems [Was At Sappho, now Internet
     Archive]
 * Peru
   * 2ND Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of
     Portuguese Judaizers [At this Site]
   * Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa: Colonial Lima, from A Voyage to South
     America, 1748 [Was At Historical Text Archive, now Internet Archive]
   * Wikipedia: National University of San Marcos (Lima). Founded 1551 and the
     oldest university in the Americas.
 * Paraguay
   * WEB Missionaries in the Colonial Americas [At Loyola-Chicago] [Internet
     Archive version here]
   * Wikipedia: Jesuit Missions among The Guarani
   * Catholic Encyclopedia: Reductions of Paraguay
   * Unesco: Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana,
     Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao
     Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)
   * 2ND Èric Gómez-i-Aznar: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions [At
     Econ Hist Rev] [Internet Archive version here] + full text here
   * Map: Jesuit Reducciones (Settlements)
   * Wikipedia: Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750)
   * Wikipedia: Guaraní War 1756
   * Charles III of Spain: Expulsion of the Jesuits 1767 [At this Site]
 * Brazil
   * Wikipedia: Portuguese colonization of the Americas
   * Amerigo Vespucci, “Letter from Seville” (1500) [At Hathitrust] + see
     Wikipedia: Amerigo Vespucci, “Letter from Seville”
   * Wikipedia: Jean de Léry, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578)
   * Hans Staden, The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse (1557) [Internet Archive]
     + see Wikipedia: Hans Staden, True History: An Account of Cannibal
     Captivity in Brazil (1557)
   * Wikipedia: André Thevet, The New Found World, or Antarctike (1556, English
     edition, 1568)
   * Wikipedia: Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750)
     Established the modern boundaries of Brazil.
   * Map: Brazil 1534
   * Map: Brazil 1750

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The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks
Project. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are
indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally
available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of
small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an
especially valuable overview.

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