BookRamón A. Gutiérrez.
Summary: This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view. Nielsen 9780804718325 20160528
Contents:
Tables and figures
Introduction
Part I. The Sixteenth Century: 1. The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century
Part II. The Seventeenth Century: 2. The Spanish conquest of New Mexico
3. Seventeenth-century politics
Part III. The Eighteenth Century: 4. The reconquest of New Mexico
5. Honor and social status
6. Honor and virtue
7. Honor and marriage
8. Marriage and the church
9. Marriage - the empirical evidence
10. The bourbon reforms on the Northern Frontier
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index. Nielsen 9780804718325 20160528