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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2013
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511800528
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800528
Subjects:
Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy, Latin American History
Series:
Cambridge Latin American Studies (61)
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘Ambivalent Conquests sets a high standard of elegance in style and argument.’

Nancy Farriss Source: Hispanic American Historical Review

‘This is a splendid book by a gifted historian.’

Steve J. Stern Source: The American Historical Review

‘This is an intricate story, by turns exhilarating and depressing, of cultural interaction among parties whose motives were consciously and unconsciously at variance. . . . Clendinnen's reconstruction is a model of historical intelligence and anthropological empathy couched in superbly crafted prose."

Frederick P. Bowser Source: Latin American Research Review

‘[Clendinnen’s] analysis of the symbolic forms of everyday life sheds new light on the relationship between the ‘social’ and the ‘sacred’.’

Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

‘A worthwhile contribution.’

Matthew Restall Source: UCLA Historical Journal

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