Ambivalent Conquests
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

A study of Mayan conversion in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

Inga Clendinnen (Author)

9780521820318, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 May 2003

264 pages
22.1 x 14.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.438 kg

'A worthwhile contribution.' Matthew Restall, UCLA Historical Journal

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.

Part I. Spaniards: 1. Explorers
2. Conquerors
3. Settlers
4. Missionaries
5. Conflict
6. Crisis
7. Attrition
8. Retrospections
Epilogue. The hall of mirrors
Part II. Indians: 9. Finding out
10. Connections
11. Continuities
12. Assent
Epilogue. Confusion of tongues.

Subject Areas: Spirituality & religious experience [HRLK], Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ], General & world history [HBG]