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Promiscuous power : an unorthodox history of New Spain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mexico > History > Conquest, 1519-1540.
Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
New Spain > History.
Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) > History.
Inquisition > New Spain.
New Spain > Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • The conquest of Michoacán, paradise's lost and found
  • Burning down the house, in which the spiritual conquistadors go to war with each other
  • "I shit on you, sir"; or, a rather unorthodox lot of catholics who didn't fear the Inquisition
  • The Inquisition that wasn't there, in which the locals removed the Inquisition's agent from office and the inquisition gave up
  • The crown's man : an "incorrigible delinquent," in which a bunch of sketchy and murderous dudes wrought havoc in Colima
  • Caudillo priests, in which the locals triumphed and trampled the crown
  • Conclusion.