About this title: This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Underlining, chip torn off front lower right corner, bumps and shelf wear. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, Cambridge, Mass.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Slight water damage to book, stiffening the pages and wraps. Light shelf wear. Solid reading copy with tight binding and clean pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Fair. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Some corner, edge wear, cover crease. Pages good, highlight throughout. Good, useable working copy. Specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr. Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1/27/1989
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Good. Good paperback copy. Text is unmarked and clean except for a star in the margin on page 32. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Shelfwear to wraps. read more
Edition: LATER PRINT
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Good. HISTORY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. ORANGE COVERS. 243 PAGES. WRITING ON REAR END PAPER AND MARGINAL NOTE ON PAGE 73. THERE IS A DAMP STAIN AT THE BOTTOM SPINE EDGE AT BOOK REAR. THIS HAS CAUSED THE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE BOOK TO BE WAVY, DOES NOT AFFECT THE ABILITY TO READ THIS BOOK. TEXT IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England 1998
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Paperback is in near fine condtion with a remainder mark. No dj. Fine history of the tragic confrontation of the Ycatan Maya and the Spanish invaders. 243 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1989-01-27
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Very Good. Cambridge University Press paperback in very good condition. Light shelfwear, previous owner's initials on inside of front cover. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition. read more
Edition: First edition. First Pbk Edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. light edge/cover wear, lightly dogeared, some lamination on back cover. 243 p.; 0.61" x 8.48" x 5.48". Clas. Includes Illustrations. Trade size paperback of 243 indexed pages. A classic college text in the study of Spanish Conquest in Central America. Highlighting throughout, yet very legible text. Approx. 6"x8". Orange cover with Mayan relief on front; white and black lettering on front and side. read more
Binding: trade papeback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Trade size paperback of 243 indexed pages. A classic college text in the study of Spanish Conquest in Central America. Highlighting throughout, yet very legible text. Approx. 6"x8". Orange cover with Mayan relief on front; white and black lettering on front and side. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780521379816ISBN:0521379814
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvii, 245 pp., illus., maps; 22 cm. First published, 1987. Reprint, 1998. Tight, clean copy. "This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr. Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to ... read more
Edition: REV Edition Number is 2
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780521527316ISBN:0521527317
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.54 by.71 inches. (264 pages) a study of mayan conversion in sixteenth-century yucatan. both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the spanish empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of european domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. dr clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent spanish visions of yucatan and its destructive outcomes. both a specific study of conversion in a ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521333979ISBN:0521333970
Description: Very Good. 0521333970 Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Bookplate inside front cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780521333979ISBN:0521333970
Description: Good. DJ shows light chipping and edge wear with sticker on front. Light soiling on sides of book. Pages are yellowed, and a few have notes or underlining. read more
"A companion to the Aztec book of Clendinnen, this exhibits the Maya's vastly more entertaining insurrection from Spanish rule. Despite their decentralized territories, and their cooption by the Chichen in the north, the Maya remained the single most difficult large-scale area inhabitor to conquer. In the 1800's, a Maya revolt almost kicked the Spanish garrisons off the Yucatan (it would have effectively terminated their control of the region), but the rainy season began and like clockwork, the Maya severed the battle and headed home."
"I read this recently and I think there are few books that attend to the complexities surrounding culture contact within the context of the conquest as well as this one. Clendinnen avoids easy interpretations of motivations and actions, preferring to tease out the irrationality in human behavior. She also looks at the Encounter in the Yucatan from both the European and the Maya point of view, demonstrating how much we can infer about indigenous beliefs and practices from inherently problematic sources. Eloquently written, but dense."
"I'd probably have liked it better if I had been in a better mental state at the time, and also if I was into the Mayans and such. Probably pretty good in actuality."
"I enjoyed this book, although a lot of my classmates did not. There were some fragment sentences that I did not notice apparently. Anyway, that aside, I think Clendinnen did some nice work and I learned a lot about this subject. This is no novel though, but it is an interesting historical work. Very short as well."
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