Ambivalent conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

Summary: 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. -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 0521333970
ISBN: 9780521333979
ISBN: 0521379814
ISBN: 9780521379816
Physical Description: print
xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Spaniards -- Explorers -- Conquerors -- Settlers -- Missionaries -- Conflict -- Crisis -- Attrition -- Retrospections -- Epilogue: The hall of mirrors -- Indians -- Finding out -- Connections -- Continuities -- Assent -- Epilogue: Confusion of tongues -- Diego de Landa's indictment of the Sotuta Indians -- The confessions.