

The Mexican Mission Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600 The Economic History of Latin America since Independence, Third Edition, Victor Bulmer-Thomas (Continued after the Index)

Black Saint of the Americas: The Life and Afterlife of Martín de Porres, Celia Cussen 98. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians, Tatiana Seijas 99. Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800, Peter Villella 100. Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution, Marcela Echeverri 101. Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, William B. The Lords of Tetzcoco: The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico, Bradley Benton 103. Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, Ben Vinson III 104. Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900, Timo H. Latin America’s Radical Left: Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s, Aldo Marchesi 106. The Mexican Revolution’s Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929, Sarah Osten 107. Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706, Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva 108. Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630–1790, Jessica L. The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro, Shawn William Miller 110. Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America, Weinstein/Woodard/Montiero 111. Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755, Christoph Rosenmüller 112. KLEIN Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University and Hoover Research Fellow, Stanford University General Editors KRIS LANE, Tulane University MATTHEW RESTALL, Pennsylvania State UniversityĮditor Emeritus HERBERT S. Ryan Dominic Crewe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Denver. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule.

Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death.

The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Monastery Construction Campaigns by Decade Foundations of Doctrinas by DecadeĪppendix 2. Social Hierarchies and Territorial OrganizationĤ Paying for Thebaid: The Colonial Economy of a Mendicant Paradiseĥ Building in the Shadow of Death: Monastery Construction and the Politics of Community ReconstitutionĦ The Burning Church: Native and Spanish Wars Over the Mission EnterpriseĨ Epilogue: Salazar's Doubt: Global Echoes of the Mexican MissionĪppendix 1. Sacred Terror: Friars and Their Para-Missionariesģ The Staff, the Lash, and the Trumpet: The Native Infrastructure of the Mission Enterprise 1 The Burning Temple: Religion and Conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500Ģ Christening Colonialism: The Politics of Conversion in Post-Conquest Mexico
