The destruction of the indigenous peoples of Hispano America : a genocidal encounter / Eitan Ginzberg.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Map 1 The Maya Civilization Sphere -- Map 2 The Aztec Kingdom -- Map 3 Tenochtitlán -- Map 4 The Inca Kingdom -- Map 5 The Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mid-16th Century -- Map 6 The Viceroyalty of Peru, Late 16th Century -- Map 7 Main Spanish Trans-Atlantic Trade Routes, 16thâ#x80;#x93;18th Centuries -- Introduction -- Genocide and the Hispanic American Dilemma -- The Concept of Genocide and its Referential Limitations -- The Limited Approach to the Question of Genocide -- Genocide as a twentieth-century phenomenon -- The Jewish Holocaust: A unique genocidal phenomenon? -- Should cultural extermination be viewed as genocide? -- The question of intent -- Settler colonialism as piecemeal genocide? -- The Extended Approach to the Question of Genocide -- Is genocide without intent possible? -- Genocide as a universal phenomenon -- Genocide as an extermination of culture -- Genocide as a colonial condition: Lemkinâ#x80;#x99;s observation -- The Hispanic American Dilemma According to Lemkin -- Focus and Aims of This Study -- Historical Sources -- 1 America and the Native Americans: On the Eve of a Tragic Encounter -- The Population of America on the Eve of the Conquest -- Cultural Background -- Origins of the Central and South American Cultures -- Creating Existential Frameworks for Daily Life -- The Dimension of Time -- Material Culture and Social Life -- Spiritual Life and Ritual -- Writing and Literature -- Political Structure and Imperial Territory on the Eve of the Conquest -- Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism -- From Discovery to Concealment -- 2 Spaniards and Indianos at the Onset of the Conquest -- Emergence of the Spaniard as â#x80;#x9C;Frontier Manâ#x80;#x9D; -- The Consolidation of Spain -- Spanish Momentum and Expanding Horizons -- 3 The Discovery and Conquest of America.

Discovery and Exploration of the New World -- The Conquest of Mexico -- The Conquest of Peru -- Factors that Contributed to the Spanish Victory -- 4 The Conquest: A Strategy of Cruelty and Destruction -- Dynamics of Mass Killings -- â#x80;#x9C;Pacificationâ#x80;#x9D;: The Horrors of an Expanding Conquest -- The Chichimeca Affair -- Devastation of Infrastructure -- Violence as Logic of Conquest -- Cultural Destruction -- 5 Institutions of Subjugation and Acculturation -- The Encomienda -- The Repartiemento (Allocation) System -- Background, framework and agenda -- The Repartimiento on Trial: The Third Provincial Council of the Mexican Church (1585) -- Pedro de Praviaâ#x80;#x99;s response -- The Franciscan position -- Ortíz de Hinojosaâ#x80;#x99;s standpoint -- Life under the repartimiento system -- Debt Bondage -- The Head Tax (Tributo) -- Indian Resettlement and Destruction of Regions of Memory -- Slavery -- Conclusions -- 6 Debating the Appropriate Treatment of Native Americans (1511â#x80;#x93;1539) -- The Groundbreaking Sermons of Antonio de Montesinos (1511) -- The Council of Burgos (1512) -- The Requerimiento -- The Valladolid Conference of November 1526 -- In the Name of the Humanity and Wisdom of the Indians: The Papal Bull of Paul III -- Francisco de Vitoria and the Justification of the Spanish Rule in America (1534â#x80;#x93;1539) -- Proposal for a new legal order -- The conceptual framework -- De Indis and the false claims on America -- De Indis and the seemingly legal Spanish claims to America -- De iure belli: Was the war against the Indians a just one? -- Conclusions -- 7 Debating the Appropriate Treatment of Native Americans (1542â#x80;#x93;1585) -- The New Laws of 1542 -- The Idea of Restitution (1547) -- The Debate: Bartolomé de Las Casas versus Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1550â#x80;#x93;1551) -- The Codex of 1573 -- The Third Provincial Council of the Mexican Church (1585) -- Conclusions.

Colour Illustrations -- Mono Illustrations -- 8 Unintended Calamity or Genocidal Encounter? What did Actually Happen in Sixteenth-Century Hispano-America? -- The Inevitability of the Spanish Colonization -- The Logics of Spanish Colonialism and its Consequences -- The Debate about the Plagues and their Causes -- Unintended Calamity or Genocidal Encounter? -- Denying Responsibility -- From Denial of Responsibility to Denial of the Indian -- Epilogue: Lessons about Genocide and the Destruction of Culture -- The Policy of Indian Rehabilitation and Its Critics -- The Emergence of Spanish American Indianism -- Lessons to be Drawn from the Extermination of the Indians -- Glossary of Terms -- Vocabulary List -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Sussex Academic Press.

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