The Improbable Conquest : : Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata / / ed. by Victoria L. Garrett, Pablo García Loaeza.
The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, a...
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The Improbable Conquest : Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata / ed. by Victoria L. Garrett, Pablo García Loaeza. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2015 1 online resource (144 p.) : 3 illustrations/1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Latin American Originals ; 9 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region's first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the less glamorous side of the conquest, narrating in detail various misfortunes, infighting, corruption, and complaints. Their letters further reveal the colony's fraught relationship with the native peoples it sought to colonize, giving insight into the complexities of the conquest and the colonization process. Pablo García Loaeza and Victoria Garrett provide an introduction to the history of the region and the conquest's key players, as well as a timeline and a glossary explaining difficult and archaic Spanish terms. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) Explorers Spain Correspondence. Spaniards Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) Correspondence. Spaniards Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) History 16th century. HISTORY / Latin America / South America. bisacsh García Loaeza, Pablo, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Garrett, Victoria L., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Restall, Matthew, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110745252 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271066585?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271066585 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271066585/original |
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