A troubled marriage : indigenous elites of the colonial Americas /

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans and missionaries within early transatlantic empires and late...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McEnroe, Sean F. (Sean Francis) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Crossing the waters
  • A marriage of equals
  • Scribes and scholars
  • Artists and artisans
  • Saints, martyrs, and missionaries
  • An evolving urban hierarchy
  • Captains, conquerors, and new frontiers
  • The end of an age: indians and indpendence