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Idea of a New General History of North America : An Account of Colonial Native Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo, 1702-1751 (Author)
Other Authors: Poole, Stafford (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico > Early works to 1800.
Mexico > History > Early works to 1800.
Table of Contents:
  • The excellence of the history of New Spain
  • Procedure in writing this history
  • First age
  • Second age
  • Divine heroic symbols of the planets
  • Divine heroic symbols of the days of the year
  • The days are the following
  • Divine heroic symbols of the months
  • Symbols of the Indian months, according to Father Fray Martin de Leon
  • Symbols of the Indian months, according to Gemelli Careri
  • Divine heroic nocturnal symbols of the year
  • Other examples of transformations as means of reward and punishment
  • Heroic military symbols
  • Heroic political symbols
  • Of the knots and songs, both historical and poetic
  • Origin of the Indians of New Spain
  • On the passage and crossing that the Indians of New Spain took to arrive there
  • Giants
  • The Olmec and Xicalanco Indians
  • The Toltec Indians
  • Third age
  • The Chichimeca Indians
  • The Tepanec Indians
  • The Mexican Indians
  • The Teochichimeca Indians
  • Conquest by the Spaniards
  • Observations on what has been said
  • The usefulness that this work can produce.