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List of Plates
Glossary
General Introduction
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VOLUME I
THE CONQUERORS AND THE CONQUERED,
Introduction
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PART 1. THE NATIVE SOCIETIES
Chapter One. Indian Societies of the Caribbean and South America
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Las Casas on the Five Kings of Hispaniola.
Oviedo on the Arawaks of Hispaniola.
The relacion of Fray Ramon Pane.
1578. The Indians of Caracas, from a geographical account of the province.
Cieza de Leon on the Indians of Popayan.
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Circa 1573. Account of the Indians of the region of Cordoba.
Staden on the Tupi of eastern Brazil.
Circa 1600. Anthony Knivet's account of the Brazilian Indians.
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Juan de Tovar on the origins and rise of the Aztecs.
Diego Duran on the defeat of the Tepanecs.
Zorita on the Aztec political system, child-raising, and tribute.
SahagUn on the Aztec nobility.
Duran on Aztec sacrifices.
Diego de Landa on the Maya of Yucatan.
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Chapter Three.
The Mexicans and the Maya
The Incas
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Garcilaso on the origins of the Incas.
Sarmiento de Gamboa on the war with the Chancas and the accession of
Pachacuti.
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1570. Testimony of an Indian principal on the Inca conquest in central Peru.
Cieza de Leon on the Incas.
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Garcilaso on Inca social organization.
Poma de Ayala on Inca society.
PART II. IBERIAN PRECEDENTS
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The conquest of Murcia as related by King James the Conqueror of Aragon.
Laws on the division of booty, from the Siete Partidas.
Distribution of land after the conquest of Seville.
Raiding and warfare on the Granada frontier.
1491. The Capitulations of Granada.
Juan de Vallejo on the Archbishop Jimenez de Cisneros.
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West Africa
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Azurara on the enterprises of Prince Henry of Portugal.
Diogo Gomes' account of his voyages.
The establishment of the fort of Sao Jorge da Mina.
Duarte Pacheco on the fortress of Sao Jorge da Mina.
1510. The Factor Mamede de Goios to the King.
1510. Accounts of the Factor Estevao Barrados.
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1480. Order of Monso V to throw overboard the crews of ships found beyond.
the Canaries.
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Chapter Six. The Atlantic Islands
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Chapter Five.
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The Muslim Frontier: Conquest and Conversion
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The islands and their settlement under Prince Henry.
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Cadamosto's description of the islands in 1455.
Grant of J 0300I to J 0300Gonsalves Zarco for the settlement of Madeira.
1439. Royal grant of the lordship of the Azores to Prince Henry.
PART III.
Chapter Seven.
THE FORMAL STRUCTURE OF EMPIRE
1479. The Treaty of Alca<;ovas.
1493. The bull Inter Caetera.
1493. The bull Dudum Siquidem.
1494. The Treaty of Tordesillas.
1506. The bull Ea Quae.
1604. The Treaty of London.
1609. The Truce of Antwerp.
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1510. The Requirement/
1539. Vitoria on the justice of conquest.
1547. Sepulveda on the justice of conquest.
Las Casas on the justice of conquest.
1599. Vargas Machuca on the treatment of the Indians.
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International Treaties
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Imperial
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1542. The New Laws.
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1546. Mining ordinances issued by Pedro de Valdivia in Chile.
1573. Ordinances for new discoveries.
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1486. The bull Orthodoxe Fidei Propagationem.
1501. The bull Eximiae Devotionis.
1504. The bull Illius Fulciti Presidio.
1505. Ferdinand to Francisco de Rojas, ambassador at Rome.
1508. The bull Universalis Ecclesiae Regimini.
1512. The Concordat of Burgos.
1522. The Omnimoda: Adrian VI to Charles V.
1537. The bull Sublimis Deus.
1574. Royal decree restating the right of patronage.
1583. Royal decree ordering that parishes in the Indies be served by secular
clergy.
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1549. Decree prohibiting the personal servitude of Indians.
1551. Decree on the assessment of tribute.
King and Church in the Indies
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1571. Ordinances for the Council of the Indies.
1535. Royal instructions for the Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
1563. Ordinances of the audiencias.
1565. The licentiate Castro's ordinances for the corregidoresde Indios.
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Communications
and the Regulation of Shipping
1503. Ordinances for the Gasa de la Gontratacion.
The examination and licensing of navigators in the Indies trade.
Oviedo on the training of navigators.
1522. Ordinances on the preparation and inspection of ships leaving for the
Indies.
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1564. Decree on the organization of the flotas.
1573. Eugenio de Salazar to Miranda de Ron on the minor horrors of the sea.
Notes on the Maps
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Agents
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