Historiography of the Spanish Conquests of the Americas

Historiography of the Spanish Conquests of the Americas

1492 - Present

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Chang, Eileen Ka-May. Historiography: An Introductory Guide. (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012), 1 -3.
For a sample of Spanish sources on various elements of the conquest, the emergent Spanish Empire, and their views and ethnographic studies of the civilizations they encounter see: For the Tainos -The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America 1492 - 1493: Abstracted by Fra Bartolome De las Casas, trans. Olivia Dunn and James E. Kelley jr. (Norman: University of Oaklahoma, 1989); Fray Raymon Pane. An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians, trans. Susan C. Griswold. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999); Bartolome de las Casas. The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account, trans. Herma Briffault; For the Aztec - (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); Bernal Diaz del Castillo. The Conquest of New Spain, trans. J. M. Cohen. (New York: Penguin Books, 1962); Hernan Cortes: Letters from Mexico, trans. Anthony Pagden. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); Fray Bernadino de Sahugan. The Florentine Codex, General History of the Things of New Spain, 12 Volumes. eds and trans. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dribble. ( Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1950 -82); Fray Diego Duran. The History of the Indies of New Spain, trans. Doris Heyden. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994).
For a sample of sources concerning the Inca and Spanish conquest see: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615, trans. Roland Hamilton. (Austin: University of Texas, 2009); Titu Cusi Yupanqui. An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, trans. Ralph Bauer. (Bolder: University Press of Colorado, 2005; Garcilaso De La Vega. The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged, trans. Harold H. Livermore. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2006); Juan de Betanzos. Narrative of the Incas, trans. Roland Hamilton and Dana Buchanan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996).

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