Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

Cuando el jesuita Eusebio Kino conoció California, quedó prendado de esta gran región y sus habitantes indígenas. A pesar de que ya no regresó a ella, nunca la olvidó. A lo largo de sus cartas, informes y de su famoso "Favores Celestiales", Kino la menciona constantemente. Todos sus proyectos y su presencia misma en Sonora, estuvieron en función de California. Sin su apoyo, el proyecto evangelizador de Juan María Salvatierra se hubiera sumado a la larga lista de fracasos por establecer esta provincia. Es así que sin Kino no se explica California, y sin California no se explica la...

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This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

This work provides a critical, reflexive panorama of the way archaeological pottery studies in North-western Argentina were carried out throughout the discipline's history (from 16th century onwards). It evaluates their variation or lack of variation in the different sub-areas in the region (Puna, Valleys, Ravines and Western Forests) and analyzes the development of these studies against the theoretical-methodological changes in national archaeology (thus evaluating how and why these studies have changed). It presents the state-of-the-art view of pottery studies in North-western Argentina...