Utopia and history in Mexico

By Georges Baudot

Subjects: Ethnology, mexico, Sources, Indiens d'Amérique, Ethnologie, Indians of Mexico, HISTORY, Histoire, Indians of mexico, history, Ethnology, History, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540

Description: "Important historical analysis of 16th-century accounts concerning indigenous people. Examines context in which chronicles - considered among the earliest ethnographies - were written (and censured and ignored), and Franciscan beliefs about the Indians' future within the millennial kingdom. First English translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.