Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Colonial Latin America
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Colonial Latin America
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The Conquest and
Exploitation of the Americas
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The Creation of Latin
American Cultures
- Biographic Sources On Spaniards In The New World,
16th-17th Centuries [At this Site]
- The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 [At this Site]
Spain's pro-Indian laws.
-
Álvar Núñe-beza de Vaca: Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey
(1963, copyright not renewed), full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
"The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a
royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried."
- Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain,
1561 [At this Site
- Mexico
-
Antonio Valerian: Nican Mopohua,
(or Huei Tlamahuitzoltica) [At Sancta.org]. [Internet Archive version here]
The story of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, who is said to have appeared in 1531. Written in
Nahuatl, the Aztec language, around the middle of the sixteenth century. This copy
published in Nahuatl by Luis Lasso de la Vega in 1649.
- Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in
Mexico City, 1612 [At this Site]
-
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poems [Was At Sappho, now Internet Archive]
- Peru
- Paraguay
- Brazil
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