Letters and People of the Spanish Indies

Sixteenth Century

Author: James Lockhart
Secondary Author: Enrique Otte
ISBN: 0521099900

This volume presents a selection of translated public and private letters, written by Spanish officials, merchants, and ordinary settlers, aiming to illuminate the panorama of sixteenth-century Spanish American settler society and its genres of correspondence. Letters written by Native Americans, a few of whom at this time were beginning to practice European-style letter-writing, are also included. It is hoped that readers will feel the colorful humanity of the letter-writers, and also see the wide array of social types and functions during this era in the United States' Southwest.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: 1976-03-26

Subjects: History / Latin America / General, History / Latin America / South America, History / Renaissance, History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

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