Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest

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In Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier Jos Rabasa examines the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, he reveals why this conjunction remains relevent and influential today. Rabasa elaborates a critique of Spanish legislation that prescribed forms of converting Indians to Christianity and subjecting them to Spanish rule,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822325675

ISBN13:9780822325673

Release Date:August 2000

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:2.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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