Rereading the Conquest

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"Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.". "The book offers a fresh look at religion, politics, and the writing of history by employing a poststructuralist method that engages the exclusions as well as the content of the historical record. The moments of doubt, contradiction, and ambiguity thereby uncovered lead to deconstructing a coherent conquest narrative that continues to resonate in our present age."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Historiography,  Indians of Mexico,  Tarasco Indians,  Missions,  History,  Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540,  Michoacan de ocampo (mexico),  Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810,  Purépecha Indians,  Histoire,  Historiographie,  Tarasques,  Kolonialismus,  Kolonialisme