History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Chapter 3: AUTHORITIES QUOTED IN THE HISTORY OF MEXICO.

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A detailed narrative and analysis of the early Spanish incursions into Mexico that traces exploratory voyages, military conquest, and the rapid subjugation of advanced indigenous societies. It combines chronological accounts of coastal and inland expeditions with examination of colonial institutions imposed afterward, including land and labor grants, caste divisions, commercial restrictions, and the church’s contested efforts to protect native communities. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources, the work situates conquest actions, policies of the crown, and their social and cultural consequences, emphasizing both destructive impacts on preexisting civilizations and the administrative structures that shaped three centuries of colonial rule.

AUTHORITIES QUOTED
IN
THE HISTORY OF MEXICO.

[It is my custom to prefix to each work of the series the name of every authority cited in its pages. In this instance, however, it is impracticable. So immense is my material for the History of Mexico that a full list of the authorities would fill a third of a volume, obviously more space than can properly be allowed even for so important a feature. I therefore reduce the list by omitting, for the most part, three large classes: first, those already given for Central America; second, those to be given in the North Mexican States; and third, many works, mostly pamphlets, which, though consulted and often important, have only an indirect bearing on history, or which have been cited perhaps but once, and on some special topic. These, and all bibliographic notes, are accessible through the index.]