James Lockhart

Letters and people of the Spanish Indies, sixteenth century

The public and private letters of merchants which present a lively panorama of early life in Spanish-American society.

Care, ingenuity and irresponsibility: the Bierhorst Edition of the Cantares Mexicanos

Bierhorst, John, transi. Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. xiii + 559 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index.

A Scholarly Debate: The Origins of Modern Mexico-Indígenistas vs. Hispanistas

48.50 cloth. Bierhorst, John. A Nahuatl‐English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytical Transcription and Grammatical Notes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. 751 pp. including appendix and references.

The Nahuas after the Conquest. A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

69.50

The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

This year, 1992, marks the quincentenary or quincentennial of the first voyage of Columbus to the Western Hemisphere. In 1990, as Chair of the Mexican Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History, I invited two of the leading scholars on Mexico during the colonial periodProfessor Jacques Lafaye (Universite de Paris IV) and Professor James Lockhart (UCLA)-to help set the debate for the upcoming anniversary by delivering a 20 minute summary of the role of Spain in the history of colonial Mexico at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco. The following essays are the result of that discussion held on December 29, 1990 in San Francisco.

Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil

A monumental achievement of scholarship, this volume on the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact. Simply put, the purpose of this book is to throw light on the history of Nahua society and culture through the use of records in Nahuatl, concentrating on the time when the bulk of the extant documents were written, between about 1540-50 and the late eighteenth century. At the same time, the earliest records are full of implications for the very first years after contact, and ultimately for the preconquest epoch as well, both of which are touched on here in ways that are more than introductory or ancillary.