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Monday, February 17, 2020

Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán


Diego de Landa; Angel María Garibay K., Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, México: Editorial Porrúa, 1959.

Disponible en línea.

Wikipedia:
La Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, es un libro manuscrito por el obispo español Diego de Landa, alrededor de 1566. El texto fue escrito como un registro de la cultura de los mayas yucatecos en el momento de la conquista, con el propósito de ayudar a los nuevos evangelizadores a efectuar su tarea de manera más eficiente. Este libro es importante por tanto, para entender cómo vivían los mayas en el momento del encuentro con los españoles, cuáles eran sus creencias y sus instituciones, mismas que fueron abolidas o transformadas tras el encuentro con los españoles. Además, dado que contiene una sección con un llamado alfabeto maya, ha servido como base de las indagaciones dirigidas al desciframiento de los glifos mayas.


Wikipedia:
Relación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa around 1566, shortly after his return from Yucatán to Spain. In it, de Landa catalogues Mayan words and phrases as well as a small number of Mayan hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs, sometimes referred to as the de Landa alphabet, proved vital to modern attempts to decipher the script.[1] The book also includes documentation of Maya religion and the Mayan peoples' culture in general. It was written with the help of local Maya princes. It contains, at the end of a long list of Spanish words with Maya translations, a Maya phrase, famously found to mean "I do not want to." The original manuscript has been lost, but many copies still survive.

Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe (continuation) (Nos. 36, 37, 38, 39, 43-44, 45-46) – journals


Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France.

Disponible en ligne:
Number 36, 2e trimestre 1978.
Number 37, 3e trimestre 1978.
Number 38, 4e trimestre 1978.
Number 39, 1er trimestre 1979.
Number 43-44, 1er trimestre–2e trimestre 1980.
Number 45-46, 3e trimestre–4e trimestre 1980.

Saturday, February 1, 2020

La Vigencia del Mar: Una Investigación Acerca de la Soberanía Marítima y la Plataforma Continental de Venezuela dentro del Marco Internacional del Derecho del Mar, Tomos I & II


Nweihed, Kaldone G., La vigencia del mar: una investigación acerca de la soberanía marítima y la plataforma continental de Venezuela dentro del marco internacional del derecho del mar, Tomos I & II, Caracas: Ediciones Equinoccio, 1973 & 1974. (ambos en estado frágil) (firmada por el autor para el Dr. Mathews).

De las portadas:
La presente obra del profesor Kaldone constituye un estudio, de una amplitud sin precedentes en nuestro país, sobre el fenómeno del Mar; e incluso cabe decir, sin temor a caer en la exageración, que la complejidad de su perspectiva sitúa esta obra entre los esfuerzos más resaltantes a nivel continental. En Venezuela existen, ciertamente, estudios particularizados de gran interés acerca del tema. Por ello, alcanzan un sentido más sólido investigaciones, como la que ofrecemos en esta ocasión, que enmarcan exhaustivamente los diversos resultados monográficos al ofrecer una visión del Mar en sus aspectos sociológico, jurídico, económico, político, biológico y geológico. Y ello no solo con base en una exposición documentativa, sino también dando cabida a las argumentaciones, de indudable actualidad, que surgen del pensar sobre el cumulo de datos recopilados.

La obra se divide en cuatro partes principales que se titulan respectivamente: La Historia y el Mar, El Espacio Marítimo, El Espacio Marino y El Espacio Submarino.

Primer Tomo:

En este primer tomo se publican las dos primeras … En ellas se realiza, previamente, un bosquejo de la influencia que el Mar ha tenido sobre el devenir de la historia del hombre con sus connotaciones económicas, geopolíticas y psicológicas; y luego, en lo que se refiere al espacio marítimo, se concibe el Mar en su dimensión de superficie acuática que ha jugado un papel decisivo como factor de acercamiento de las civilizaciones y como vehículo natural del comercio y de la relaciones internacionales; las cuestiones referentes a la altamar y a las aguas jurisdiccionales, motivo de las actuales polémicas, son objeto de pormenorizada atención.

Segundo Tomo:

En este segundo, tienen cabida las referentes al espacio marino y al espacio submarino. En ellas se tratan temas de gran trascendencia tanto en el campo internacional del derecho del Mar, como en el ámbito concreto de nuestro país. Asi, por ejemplo, los aspectos referentes a la pesca, conservación y contaminación, a la nueva tendencia del Mar patrimonial – también conocida con los nombres de zona marítima y zona económica - ; y los problemas involucrados en el tema de la plataforma continental, entre los que destaca el referente a los recursos submarinos. Todo ello analizado desde un prisma muy vigente en el que la concepción universalista no excluye la atención específica a las cuestiones que, en estos momentos, tiene planteadas Venezuela.


Kaldone G. Nweihed, venezolano nacido en Jerusalén en 1929, se graduó brillantemente en Estudios Internacionales en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela; su tesis recibió el Premio “Alberto Possé de Rivas”. Asimismo es Profesor Graduado en Idiomas Modernos, material en la que ha desempeñado una intensa actividad docente.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Popol Vuh: Las Antiguas Historias del Quiché


Recinos, Adrián, (traductor), Popol Vuh: Las Antiguas Historias del Quiché, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1953.

Popol Vuh is a cultural narrative that recounts the mythology and history of the K'iche' people who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City. The Popol Vuh is a creation narrative written by the K'iche' people before the Spanish conquest of Guatemala,[2] originally preserved through oral tradition[3] until approximately 1550 when it was written down.[4] The survival of the Popol Vuh is credited to the 18th century Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez who made a copy of the original text in Spanish[3] The name "Popol Vuh" translates as "Book of the Community", "Book of Counsel", or more literally as "Book of the People".[5][6] The Popol Vuh includes the Mayan creation myth, beginning with the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué.[7] As with similar texts (Chilam Balam, being one example), a great deal of the Popol Vuh's significance lies in the scarcity of early accounts dealing with Mesoamerican mythologies due to the purging of documents by the Spanish Conquistadors. (…)Since Brasseur's and Scherzer's first editions, the Popol Vuh has been translated into many other languages besides its original K'iche'.[37] The Spanish edition by Adrián Recinos is still a major reference, as is Recino's English translation by Delia Goetz.


Adrián Recinos (1886–1962)[1] was a Guatemalan historian, essayist, Mayanist scholar and translator, and diplomat. Recinos was a great student of national history, mainly of the Maya civilization and the ancient history of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel people. It was he who made the first edition in Spanish of the Popol Vuh, based on his translation of the manuscript found in the Newberry Library, Chicago, the United States. He also published his translations of other ancient Mayan manuscripts, including the Anales de los Cakchiqueles.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, Tomos I - IV


de Sahagún, Bernardino, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, Tomos I - IV, [La dispuso para la prensa en esta nueva edición, con numeración, anotaciones y apéndices Ángel María Garibay K.], México, D.F.: Editorial Porrúa, S.A., 1956.

Disponible en línea Tomo I.

Disponible en línea Tomo II.

Disponible en línea Tomo III.

Bernardino de Sahagún (Sahagún, Reino de León, le. 1499 - México, 5 de febrero de 1590) fue un misionero franciscano, autor de varias obras en náhuatl y en castellano, consideradas hoy entre los documentos más valiosos para la reconstrucción de la historia del México antiguo antes de la llegada de los españoles. De entre sus escritos descuella la Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España, verdadero monumento etnográfico, compuesto de doce libros, que apenas tiene precedentes comparables en ninguna lengua. Sahagún fue, a juicio de Jerónimo de Mendieta, el más experto de todos en la lengua náhuatl.


Para realizar el libro, Bernardino de Sahagún recurrió a la indagación directa entre los nativos mexicanos, concentrándose en la región central de México. Por ello, algunos antropólogos —especialmente los mexicanos— reclaman para el fraile franciscano el ser uno de los antecesores de la moderna etnografía.2 De hecho, se trata de una copia de materiales originales que se han perdido, tal vez destruidos por las autoridades españolas que confiscaron posteriormente los manuscritos de Bernardino de Sahagún.3 Los materiales originales fueron los registros de conversaciones y entrevistas con indígenas en las poblaciones de Tlatelolco, Texcoco y Tenochtitlán, además de informes de los estudiantes indígenas trilingües formados por el fraile en el Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco (ubicado en la actual ciudad de México). Estos alumnos fueron Antonio Valeriano, oriundo de Azcapotzalco; Antonio Vejarano, de Cuahuhtitlán; Martín Jacobita, de Tlatelolco; Pedro de San Buenaventura y Andrés Leonardo, también oriundo de Tlatelolco.

Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, Tomos I & II


Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Tomos I & II, [Cuarta edición conforme a la de 1944, con la introducción y notas de Joaquín Ramírez Cabañas] México, D.F.: Editorial Porrúa, S.A., 1955.

Disponible en línea.

Disponible en audio.

Available in English Vol. I.

Available in English Vol. II.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (Medina del Campo 1495 o 1496 – 1584) fue un conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México y fue más tarde regidor de Santiago de Guatemala. Se le atribuye la autoría de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, la cual comenzó a redactar como un memorial de guerras; pero más tarde fue revisada y expandida en respuesta a la publicación de Francisco López de Gómara, que Díaz del Castillo consideraba muy imprecisa, además de que no reconocía los esfuerzos que llevaron los soldados comunes durante la invasión de México.


Es una obra de estilo cautivador desde las primeras líneas. Nos narra el proceso de la conquista de México de una manera ruda, aunque sencilla, ágil y directa. Cada página es un retrato pintoresco plagado de detalles. Leer su libro es transportarse al pasado y vivir al lado de un soldado todos los sucesos de la conquista: descripciones de lugares, relatos de personajes, anécdotas, críticas agudas y angustiantes relaciones de fatiga y peligros enfrentados. Cada uno de los doscientos catorce capítulos se convierten en una vivencia para el lector.


La Editorial Porrúa, S.A., ha querido incluir esta obra en su Biblioteca Porrúa, en la que ya han encontrado cabida valiosas obras de carácter histórico, y en la que están por aparecer cuantos estudios son de importancia decisiva para el cabal conocimiento de la Historia del Continente americano.

Monday, January 21, 2019

Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies


Lovén, Sven, Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies, Goeteborg: Elanders, 1935.

Reviewed in Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana.

"The book is virtually a requisite for all research in the field of Antillean archaeology. Apparently every work with any bearing upon the subject, especially the oldest historical sources, has been digested, and the footnote references are multitudinous. Each cultural element, tangible archaeological object or trait, is treated exhaustively; its resemblances and possible connections traced throughout the Americas; and conclusions as to its point of origin, development and migration reached." --J. Alden Mason of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, in American Anthropologist.

Colección de Documentos para la Historia de la Formación Social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Vol. I (1493- 1592)


Konetzke, Richard, Colección de documentos para la historia de la formación social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Vol. I (1493- 1592), Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953.

Les volumes un et deux examinés dans Bulletin Hispanique, Année 1959, 61-4.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1955.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1954.

Reseñada en Revista de Historia de América © 1954 .

Richard Konetzke studied history, German and philology in Marburg and Berlin. He received his scientific education especially from Otto Hintze and Friedrich Meinecke. In 1921 he received his doctorate with Meinecke and Ernst Troeltsch with the work Isaac Iselin and the state idea of the Enlightenment. After the graduation he entered the higher education service. In 1925 followed studies in the Spanish archives on the history of enlightened absolutism in Spain. The research led to the 1929 published work on The Politics of Count Aranda, in which he honors the work of the Spanish statesman Pedro Abarca. Since 1930 he was a teacher. Konetzke's 1939 story History of the Spanish and Portuguese People became the standard work for Iberian history from the German point of view. In 1941 he was commissioned by the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin to undertake research on the history of the Spanish colonization in America. He was largely released from his obligations in the teaching profession. In 1943 his basic work The Spanish Empire was published. In 1944 he went to Spain for archive research. He paid special attention to the social history of colonial Hispanic America.

Monday, December 31, 2018

Actes du XLIIe Congrès international des américanistes: Congrés du centenaire: Paris, 2-9 septembre 1976


Lafaye, Jacques, Actes du XLIIe Congrès international des américanistes: Congrés du centenaire: Paris, 2-9 septembre 1976, Vol. VI, Paris : Société des américanistes, 1977-1979. (trois exemplaires)

Table des Matières:

I. Los dioses titulares étnicos y los héroes deificados:

1. Carrasco, Pedro, “Las bases sociales del politeísmo: los dioses tutelares”.
2. Davies, Nigel, “Mixcoatl: Man and God”.
3. Jiménez Moreno, Wigberto, “De Tezcatlipoca a Huitzilopochtli”.
4. Nicholson, Henry B., “Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl vs. Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl of Tollan: A Problem in Mesoamerican Religion and History.”
5. Uchmany, Eva Alexandra, “Las características de un dios tutelar mesoamericano: Huitzilopochtli”.
6. Zantwijk, Rudolf van, “El parentesco y la afiliación étnica de Huitzilopochtli”.

II. Religión y Sociedad:

1. Hellbom, Anna-Britta, “Reflejos de ‘sincretismo’ en el Valle de México”.
2. Heyden, Doris, “Flores, creencias y el control social”.
3. Finkler, Kaja, “Spiritualism in rural Mexico”.
4. Gonzales T., Yolotl, “Algunas consideraciones sobre la antropofagia en Mesoamérica”.
5. Lagarriga Attias, Isabel, “Une ejemplo de religiosidad de los marginales de México: el Espiritualismo Trinitario Mariano”.
6. Durand-Forest, Jacqueline de, “Tlaloc: dieu au doble visage”.
7. Knab, Tim, “Talocan Talmanic: supernatural beings of the Sierra de Puebla”.

III. Système des charges civiles et religieuses des communautés indiennes:

1. Camara-Barbachano, Fernando, “El sistema de cargos en México y Perú”.
2. Chamoux, Marie- Noëlle, “Système des charges et transformation des bases de l'institution communautaire: l'exemple d'un village de la Sierra de Puebla”.
3. Dehouve, Danièle, “Le système des fêtes dans une hacienda caprine des Etats de Puebla et de Guerrero au XIXe siècle”.
4. Demyk, Michel, “Evolution du pouvoir local et transformation des élites villageoises au Guatémala”.
5. Oettinger, Marion, “Defensive regulation: an example from Tlapanec Mayordomia lending groups”.
6. Olivera-Bustamante, Mercedes, “Papel de los Pillis de Tecali en la estructura socio-económica del siglo xvi prehispánico”.
7. Sánchez Farfán, Jorge, “Antropología de la salud”.
8. Signorini, Italo, “El sistema de cargos civiles y religiosos de los Mareños (Huaves) del istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México”.
9. De Walt, Billie R., “The cargo system and economic development in Puerto de las Piedras”.

IV. El concepto de enfermedad en Meso- y Suramérica:

1. Viesca Treviño, Carlos, “El concepto de enfermedad en Mesoamérica.”
2. Peña Páez, Ignacio de la y Carlos Viesca Treviño, “Vida, enfermedad y muerte a través delos cantos y poesías náhuatl.”
3. Rodríguez Ramírez, Fracisco J., “Los colores, la ordenación del mundo y la enfermedad.”
4. Ortiz de Montellano, Bernard, “The rational causes of illnesses among the Aztecs.”
5. Fernández del Castillo, Francisco, “La observación clínica en la medicina mágica azteca.”
6. Quezada, Noemí, “Creencias tradicionales sobre embarazo y parto.”
7. Casales Ortiz, Gabino, “Conceptos de enfermedades parasitarias en la cultura náhuatl.”
8. Jiménez-Olivares, Ernestina, “La enfermedad mental en la cultura náhuatl.”
9. Castillas, Leticia E., “La distancia personal y la enfermedad en México prehispánico.”
10. Vargas, Luis A., “Las relaciones interpersonales y la enfermedad en la época prehispánica.”
11. Cortés, Jesús, “La medicina tradicional en la Sierra mazateca.”
12. Álvarez Laurencia, “Métodos de diagnóstico en un pueblo náhuatl.”
13. Collado, Rolando, “El paradigma en la dialéctica de las medicinas americanas.”
14. Mitrani, Philippe, “Essai de systématisation de la practique médicale yaruro.”
15. Perrin Michel, “Théories et practiques médicales des indiens Goajiro.”
16. Seijas, Haydée, “Los estudios de etnomedicina en Venezuela: una revisión crítica de la literatura.”
17. Muñoz – Bernand, Carmen, “Note sur le systèmes d’interprétation des maladies dans la Sierra Sud de L'Équateur.”
18. Friedberg, Claudine, “L’imaginaire dans les thérapeutiques populaires. Proposition de quelques thèmes de réflexion à travers l’exemple du complexe thérapeutique huancabambin (sierra de Piura au nord du Pérou).”

V. Continuity and Change among the Garífuna of Central America:

1. Davidson, William B., “The Garífuna symposium: an intorduction.”
2. Gullick, Charles J.M., “The black Caribs in St. Vincent: the Carib war and aftermath.”
3. Davidson, William V., “Disperal of the Garífuna in the Western Caribbean.”
4. Hadel, Richard E., Reflections on the Garífuna language and society.”
5. Dirks, Robert, ”John Canoe: ethnohistorical and comparative analysis of a Carib dance.”
6. Whipple, Emory C., “Carib music, dance and folklore.”
7. Kerns, Virginia, “Black Carib (Garífuna) paternity rituals.”
8. Borgia, Vito, “A dematoglyphic study of the black Caribs of British Honduras.”
9. Cosminsky, Sheila, “Medicinal plants of the black Caribs.”
10. Sanford, Margaret, “Disease and folk-curing among the Garífuna of Belize.”
11. Hadel, Richard E., “Changing attitudes towards the Caribs of Belize.”
12. Davidson, William V., “Coastal imperative lost?: village abandonment among the Honduran Garífuna.”
13. González, Nancie L., “From black Carib to Garífuna. The coming of age of an ethnic group.”

VI. Afro-American Studies

1. Bascom, Williams, “Introduction.”
2. Omibiyi, Mosunmola, “Interaction between African and Afro-American music.”
3. Montero Bascomb, Berta, “Seven Afro-Cuban myths.”
4. Pollak-Eltz, Angelina, “Las mascaras de los ‘diablos’ de Chuao y su possible origen africano.”
5. Abimbola, Wande, “Yoruba religion in Brazil: problems and prospects.”
6. Yai, Olabiyi Babalola, “Influence Yoruba dans la poésie cubaine: Nicolas Guillen et la tradition poétique Yoruba.”
7. Meyer, Marlyse, “Charlemagne, roi du Congo: notes sur la présence carolingienne dans la culture populaire brésilienne.”

Saturday, December 22, 2018

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Occeano, Tomo X


De Herrera, Antonio, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas, y tierra-firme de el mar occeano, Prólogo de J. Natalicio González; Tomo X, Asunción del Paraguay: Editorial Guarania, 1945.



La numeración marginal indica la paginación de la edición de 1726 – 1730, de la que esta es reproducción fiel e integral. Las cifras que van entre paréntesis marcan el texto que en la edición aludida va en la primera o segunda columna de cada pagina.

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Occeano, Tomo IX


De Herrera, Antonio, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas, y tierra-firme de el mar occeano, Prólogo de J. Natalicio González; Tomo IX, Asunción del Paraguay: Editorial Guarania, 1945.



La numeración marginal indica la paginación de la edición de 1726 – 1730, de la que esta es reproducción fiel e integral. Las cifras que van entre paréntesis marcan el texto que en la edición aludida va en la primera o segunda columna de cada pagina.

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Occeano, Tomo VIII


De Herrera, Antonio, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas, y tierra-firme de el mar occeano, Prólogo de J. Natalicio González; Tomo VIII, Asunción del Paraguay: Editorial Guarania, 1945.



La numeración marginal indica la paginación de la edición de 1726 – 1730, de la que esta es reproducción fiel e integral. Las cifras que van entre paréntesis marcan el texto que en la edición aludida va en la primera o segunda columna de cada pagina.

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Occeano, Tomo VII


De Herrera, Antonio, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas, y tierra-firme de el mar occeano, Prólogo de J. Natalicio González; Tomo VII, Asunción del Paraguay: Editorial Guarania, 1945.



La numeración marginal indica la paginación de la edición de 1726 – 1730, de la que esta es reproducción fiel e integral. Las cifras que van entre paréntesis marcan el texto que en la edición aludida va en la primera o segunda columna de cada pagina.

Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas, y Tierra-Firme de el Mar Occeano, Tomo VI


De Herrera, Antonio, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas, y tierra-firme de el mar occeano, Prólogo de J. Natalicio González; Tomo VI, Asunción del Paraguay: Editorial Guarania, 1945.



La numeración marginal indica la paginación de la edición de 1726 – 1730, de la que esta es reproducción fiel e integral. Las cifras que van entre paréntesis marcan el texto que en la edición aludida va en la primera o segunda columna de cada pagina.

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Readings In Latin American History, Volume I: to 1810


Hanke, Lewis, Readings In Latin American History, Volume I: to 1810, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966.

Lewis Hanke (1905–1993) was a preeminent U.S. historian of colonial Latin America, and is best known for his writings on the Spanish conquest of Latin America. Hanke, along with two others, Irving A. Leonard and John T. Lanning, presented a revisionist narrative of colonial history that focused on the role of Bartolomé de las Casas, who famously advocated for the rights of Native Americans, and searched for just resolutions to the tensions between the conquistadores and the natives during the colonial period of Spanish rule. Hanke's writings documented Las Casas' work as a political activist, historian, political theorist, and anthropologist. His scholarship also uncovered evidence to support Hanke’s claim that Las Casas did not act as the sole voice of conscience during the colonial era, but actually constituted the head of what was a larger reform movement by a number of Spanish colonists to prevent "the destruction of the Indies.”[1] His historiography was similar to the one of his contemporary Jaime Eyzaguirre.[2]

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Compendio y Descripción de las Indias Occidentales


Vázquez de Espinosa, Antonio, Compendio y descripción de las Indias Occidentales, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1948.

Texto disponible en línea.

Reseñado en Academy of American Franciscan History 1951.

Reseñado en Nature volume 163, page 467 (26 March 1949).

Fray Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa (born in Jerez de la Frontera and died Seville, 1630) was a Spanish friar of the Discalced Carmelites originally from Jerez de la Frontera whose Compendio y Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales has become a source of detail for the history of South America, since the manuscript's discovery in the Vatican Library in 1929.

Saturday, August 11, 2018

History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. 2: The Modern Age (1st & 2nd Editions)


Hanke, Lewis, History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. 2: The Modern Age, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967.

Hanke, Lewis, History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. 2: The Modern Age, Second Edition, United States: Little, Brown & Co., 1973.

Reviewed in Academy of American Franciscan History 1968.

Table of Contents:
Section I What Kind of Revolution Occurred in Latin America Between 1810 and 1830?

A. General
1. Only the Beginnings of a Basic Transformation Took Place, by Charles C. Griffin
B. Contemporary Descriptions of Conditions
2. Reports by British and United States Officials: (a) Caesar A. Rodney on Argentina (1818); (b) Charles Milner Rickettes on Peru (1826); (c) Joel Roberts Poinsett on Mexico (1829)
C. Special Topics
3. Education in Colombia, by David Bushnell
4. The Ethnic Factor, by Magnus Morner
D. The End of the Revolutionary Period
5. The Great Landed Estates Remained, by R.A. Humphreys
6. Further Reflections, by Charles C. Griffin
E. Brazil
7. The Uniqueness of Brazil, by C.H. Haring

Section II Juan Manuel de Rosas: Bloody Tyrant, or Founder of Argentine Unity and Defender of the Nation’s Independence?

A. Contemporary Attitudes
1. Foreign Estimates of Rosas, by William Spence Robertson
2. The Slaughter House, by Esteban Echevarria
B. Nineteenth Century Historical Controversy
3. The Tyranny of Rosas, by Jose Manuel Estrada
4. The “Middle Ages” of Argentine History, by Ernesto Quesada
C. Recent Interpretations
5. Rosas Continued the Authoritarian Colonial Tradition, by Jose Luis Romero
6. Rosas Assured the Continued Prosperity of the Pastoral Industries, by Miron Burgin
D. Revisionists and Revision
7. Discussions on Rosas Reflect the Swirling Currents of Argentine Life, by Clifton B. Kroeber
8. Rosas Still Lives in the Hearts of Some Argentines!

Section III Economic Entrepreneurs in the Mid Nineteenth Century

A. Colombia
1. There Was No Lack of Individual Enterprise, by Frank Safford
B. Mexico
2. The Spirit of Enterprise in Yucatan, by Howard F. Cline
C. Chile
3. Economic Development Before the War of the Pacific, by Frederick B. Pike
4. The Dawn of Manufacturing in Chile, by J. Fred Rippy & Jack Pfeiffer
D. Peru
5. Henry Meiggs, Yankee Pizarro, by J. Fred Rippy

Section IV Negro Slavery in Brazil

A. How Foreigners Viewed Negro Slavery
1. Slaves in Brazil Have More Tolerable Lives Than Those in Other Countries, by Henry Koster
2. “A Horrid Traffic”: Life on a Slave Ship, by Robert Walsh
3. A British Consular Report on Slavery in Northern Brazil (1831), by Robert Hesketh
4. Slavery is Doomed in Brazil, by D.P. Kidder & J.C. Fletcher
5. Slavery is a Curse for Bothe Negroes and Whites, by Herbert H. Smith
B. Analysis by a Historian
6. Patterns of Living in the Vassouras Plantation, by Stanley J. Stein
C. Recent Interpretations
7. Why Slavery Was Abolished, by Emilia Viotti da Costa
8. The Brazilian Slave, by Robert Conrad

Section V The Chilean Revolution of 1891: The Beginning of National Frustration

A. Background of the Revolution
1. An Era of Exuberant Confidence, by Frederick B. Pike
B. Interpretations of Historians Today
2. Balmaceda’s Economic Ideas Differed Fundamentally from Those of the Bankers, Businessmen, and Landowners, by Hernan Ramirez Necochea
3. A Purely Economic Interpretation Is Dangerous, by Harold Blakemore

Section VI Porfirio Diaz, Dictator of Mexico

A. Contemporary Interpretations
1. President Diaz: Hero of the Americas, by James Creelman
2. The Diaz System, by John Kenneth Turner
B. Contemporary Documents
3. Mexico Needs Foreign Capital (1897), by “El Economista Mexicano”
4. A Catholic Conference Discusses Agrarian Problems (1904), by Trinidad Sánchez Santos
5. Program of the Liberal Party (1906)
6. Mexican Workers Do Not Go To The United States! (1910), by “El Imparcial”
C. Later Views
7. The Diaz Regime as Background for the Revolution, by Charles C. Cumberland
8. The Porfiriato: Legend and Reality, by Daniel Cosio Villegas

Section VII The Great Debate: Cultural Nationalism, Anti-Americanism, and the Idea of Historical Destiny in Spanish America

A. General
1. Cultural Nationalism: The Dreams of Spanish-American Intellectuals, by Cesar Graña
2. The Hispano-American’s World, by Waldo Frank
B. Ariel: Source and Symbol of Misunderstanding
3. Ariel Embodies the Mastery of Reason and of Sentiment Over the Baser Impulses of Unreason, by Jose Enrique Rodo
4. Rodo Still Touches Chords of Sympathy and Desire in Latin America, by Kalman H. Silvert
5. The Two Americas Are Far Apart, by Richard M. Morse
C. A Case Study: Xenophobia in Mexico
6. The Roots of Nationalism, by Frederick C. Turner

Section VIII Imperialism, Intervention, and Communism in the Caribbean

A. General
1. The United States is Honor Bound to Maintain Law and Order in South America, by George W. Crichfield
2. United States Policy Was Not Inspired by Sinister or Sordid Motives, by Dana G. Munro
3.”Free Elections” Are Not the Answer, by Theodore Paul Wright, Jr.
B. The Coming of Castro
4. The Castro Revolution Was the Culmination of a Long Series of Thwarted Revolutions, by Hugh Thomas
C. The Dominican Republic During and After Trujillo
5. The High Price of Stability, by Raymond H. Pulley
6 The Issue of Communism Divides Rather Than Unites the Members of the Inter-American System, by Gordon Connell-Smith

Section IX The Age of Getulio Vargas in Brazil (1930 – 1954)

A. The Early Years
1. Brazil’s Political and Economic Condition When Vargas Seized Power, by Horace B. Davis
2. Brazil Made Tremendous Advances, by Karl Loewenstein
3. Foreign Influences at the Outbreak of World War II, by Bailey W. Diffie
B. The Return of Vargas
4. The Election of 1950, by John W. F. Dulles
5. Peron and Vargas in 1951, by George Pendle
6. Crisis and Corruption, by Jose Maria Bello
7. Suicide Note, by Getulio Vargas

Section X Historians and Historical Controversies

A. The Historian’s Task
1. The Mexican Idea of History, by Luis Villoro
2. The Historian Must Be Free, by France V. Scholes
3. History Belongs to Our Own Generation, by Jose Honorio Rodrigues
B. The Soviet Image of Latin America
4. Contemporary Soviet Research on Latin America, buy J. Gregory Oswald
C. Dialogue on How to Teach Latin American History in the United States
5. Unthinkable Thoughts, by Lewis Hanke
6. Social Injustice: The Constant in Latin American History (1492 - ), by Gunnar Mendoza

History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. I: The Colonial Experience (1st & 2nd Editions)


Hanke, Lewis, History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. I: The Colonial Experience, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967.

Hanke, Lewis, History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. I: The Colonial Experience, Second Edition, United States: Little, Brown & Co., 1973.

Reviewed in Academy of American Franciscan History 1968.

The contents of this volume and of its companion to follow, on the period of 1810 to the present, have been drawn from the rich store of material that has appeared in widely scattered publications. The selections from the original sources illustrate the freshness and unique character of such documents. The later writers approach their subjects from varied points of view. Many are historians, but the insights and interpretations of anthropologists, geographers, librarians and men of letters are also represented so that this collection brings together the work of many minds and disciplines.


Table of Contents:
Section I The Transit of Civilization.

A. General
1. A Major Challenge, by Charles Julian Bishko
B. The Spanish Background
2. The Middle Ages in the Conquest of America, by Luis Weckmann
3. America as Fantasy, by Lewis Hanke
4. The Transfer of Plants and Animals, by James A. Robertson
5. The Libraries of Colonial Spanish America, by Lawrence S. Thompson
C. The Portuguese Background
6. The Mobility, Miscibility, and Adaptability of the Portuguese, by Gilberto Freyre
7. The Portuguese Culture in Brazil, by Emilio Willems
D. The New World's Influence on the Old
8. Why Prices Rose in Europe, by John Lynch

Section II Was Inca Rule Tyrannical?

A. Favorable Assessments of the Sixteenth Century
1. How the Incas Achieved So Much, by Pedro de Cienza de Leon
2. The Corruption of an Ideal Indian Society by the Spaniards, by Mancio Sierra de Leguizamo
3. Land Division, Tribute, and Treatment of Vassals, by Garcilaso de la Vega
B. The Spanish Justification for Conquest
4. Viceroy Toledo's Attack on Inca Rule, by Lewis Hanke
5. The Tyranny of Inca Rule, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
C. Modern Interpretations
6. The Inca Empire was Socialistic, by Louis Baudin
7. Despotism or Socialism?, by Alfred Metraux

Section III Relations Between Indians and Spaniards

A. The First Cry for Justice in America
1. The Sermons of Friar Antonio de Montesinos, 1511
B. Just War Against the Indians
2. The Requirement, 1512
3. The Doctrine of Just War, by Silvio Zavala
C. Fundamental Ordinances
4. The Laws of Burgos, 1512
5. The New Laws, 1542
6. Royal Ordinances on “Pacification”, 1573
D. The Encomienda
7. Title of the Encomienda Given to Julio Gutierrez Altamirano in Chile, 1566
8. The Audiencia of New Galicia and the Indians, by J.H. Parry
E. Interpretations
9. A Seventeenth Century Defense of Spain’s Indian Policies, by Juan de Solorzano y Pereyra
10. The Theory and Practice of Racial Segregation in Colonial Spanish America, by Magnus Morner
11. Spanish Exploitation of Indians in Central Mexico, by Charles Gibson
12. The Dawn of Conscience in America, by Lewis Hanke

Section IV Population Statistics and Social History

A. Estimates of Indian Population in 1492
1. The Early Spanish Accounts Were Inflated, by Bailey W. Diffe
2. Sixteenth Century Statements on the Population of Central Mexico Are Substantiated by Modern Calculations, by Woodrow Borah & S.F. Cook
B. Early Spanish Emigration
3. Regional Origins of the Earliest Colonists, by Peter Boyd-Bowman
C. The Colonial Population
4. New Spain’s Century of Depression, by Woodrow Borah
5. The Geographical Distribution of the Negro, by Wilbur Zelinsky
6. The Population of Brazil, by Dauril Alden

Section V Vieira and the Crises of Seventeenth Century Brazil

1. A Great Luso-Brazilian Figure, by C.R. Boxer
2. The Indian Policy of Portugal in America, by Mathias C. Kiemen
3. Sermon Condemning Indian Slavery, 1653, by Antonio Vieira
4. Report on the Conversion of the Nheengaibas, Letter to Alfonso VI, November 28, 1659, by Antonio Vieira

Section VI Urban Life

A. Patterns of Settlement
1. Spanish Royal Ordinances for the Laying Out of New Towns, 1573
2. Colonial Towns of Spanish and Portuguese America, by Robert C. Smith
B. The Texture of Urban Life: Spanish America
3. An Academic Dialogue in Sixteenth Century Mexico City, by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
4. Burial of an Archbishop Viceroy in Mexico City, 1612, by Hubert Howe Bancroft
5. Riots in Seventeenth Century Mexico City, by Chester Lyle Guthrie
6. The Imperial City of Potosi, Boom Town Supreme, by Lewis Hanke
7. St. Augustine, Outpost of Empire, by John T. TePaske
C. The Texture of Urban Life: Brazil
8. The Cities of Colonial Brazil, by Jose Arthur Rios
9. The Bay of All Saints, by C.R. Boxer

Section VII The Inquisition

A. The Inquisitors and the Indians
1. Jurisdictional Confusion, by Richard E. Greenleaf
2. Fray Diego de Landa and the Problem of Idolatry in Yucatan, by France V. Scholes & Ralph L. Roys
B. An Englishman and the Inquisition
3. Robert Tomson in Mexico, 1555
C. Brazil
4. The Holy Office Visits Brazil, 1591 – 1595, by Arnold Wiznitzer
D. The Inquisition in Seventeenth Century Peru
5. The Portuguese Judaizers in Peru, by Henry Charles Lea
E. The Inquisition in Eighteenth Century Mexico
6. The Mexican Inquisition and the Enlightenment, by Richard E. Greenleaf

Section VIII Science and Medicine

A. Scientific Investigation of the New World in the Sixteenth Century
1. Francisco Hernandez in New Spain, by German Somolinos D’Ardois
2. The Scientific Ideas of Jose de Acosta, by Theodore Hornberger
B. A Seventeenth Century Scholar
3. A Great Savant of Colonial Peru: Don Pedro de Peralta, by Irving A. Leonard
C. Brazil
4. An Overview of Science in Colonial Brazil, by Fernando de Azevedo
D. Late Colonial Developments
5. Flowers for the King, by Arthur Robert Steele
6. Balmis and the Introduction of Vaccination to Spanish America, by Sherburne F. Cook

Section IX Climax and Crisis in the Eighteenth Century

A. New Spain
1. The Reorganization of the Army, by Lyle N. McAlister
2. Problems and Progress in New Spain, by Alexander von Humboldt
B. Peru
3. The Great Revolt of Tupac Amaru, by George Kubler
4. The Failure at the Huancavelica Mercury Mine, by Arthur P. Whitaker
C. A Modern Interpretation
5. The Fall of the Spanish American Empire, by R.A. Humphreys

Section X Historians and Historical Controversies
A. Ideas and Methods
1. How the History of Brazil Should be Written, by Karl F.P. von Martius
2. The Historical Methods of William H. Prescott
3. The Historical Methods of Hubert Howe Bancroft
B. Sources
4. The Other Treasure from the Indies, by Lewis Hanke
C. Interpretations
5. William Robertson and His History of America, by R.A. Humphreys
6. Francisco Encina Interprets Colonial Chile, by Charles C. Griffin
D. Controversy
7. Chickens in America Befiore Columbus?, by Carl O. Sauer

Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus


Morison, Samuel Eliot, Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, New York: The Heritage Press, 1963.

Samuel Eliot Morison: Hisotriam Journal of American Studies © 1977.

The In 1940, Morison published Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century, a book that presaged his succeeding publications on the explorer, Christopher Columbus. In 1941, Morison was named Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard. For Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), Morison combined his personal interest in sailing with his scholarship by actually sailing to the various places that Christopher Columbus explored. The Harvard Columbus Expedition, led by Morison and including his wife and Captain John W. McElroy, Herbert F. Hossmer, Jr., Richard S. Colley, Dr. Clifton W. Anderson, Kenneth R. Spear and Richard Spear, left on 28 August 1939 aboard the 147 foot ketch Capitana for the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal from which they sailed on the 45 foot ketch Mary Otis to retrace Columbus' route using manuscripts and records of his voyages reaching Trinidad by way of Cadiz, Madeira, and the Canary Islands.[8] After following the coast of South and Central America the expedition returned to Trinidad on 15 December 1939.[8] The expedition returned to New York on 2 February 1940 aboard the United Fruit liner Veragua.[8] The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.