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THEMES
PRE-CONQUEST
Europe
& Iberia
 The
end of the Middle Ages-14th/15th C. Europe-U.Calgary Tutorial
The Très Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry-15th c. European Life in images
Iberian Chivalric
Literature
History
of Moorish Spain
History of Spain-Brief
overviews for each period, provided by Spanish Tourism agency w/ cooperation
of diplomatic service
WebMuseum, Paris--Artists
& Artistic Trends, Middle Ages-20th c
Four colonial and pre-colonial documents: The
Bull of Grenada (1486); Columbus'
Experience; partial
sermon of 1511 (Antonio Montesinos) (in Spanish);
The
Requerimiento (in Spanish)
Medieval
Jewish Life (Spain & Elsewhere in Europe, to 1492) including
Fuero
of Teruel (1192) on Jews, Christians & Moors
1495-Primary
Source on Expulsion of Jews from Spain
1491-Lorenzo
Medici-Paternal Advice to a Cardinal
Webpage: Spanish
Inquisition
Internet Medieval
Sourcebook-P. Halsall, ed.--links to numerous primary sources on
Early Modern Europe
Hanover Historical
Text Project--Interesting texts from Antiquity to the Present, including
the Familiar
Letters of Petrarch
Footwear
of the Middle Ages (Europe)
Urban
Population-Cities of Europe, N Africa, Middle East, 500-1483 The Medieval
Technology Page (By P. J. Gans)
The
Transformation of Europe-15th c (Prof. G. Rempel, WNEC)
Spain & Its Coins
Website: Kings
of Spain, Kings
of Spain & Portugal, Kingdoms
of Europe
Website: Building
blocks in Cartography: Portolan charts of 1424, 1466, 1489, 1507
Webpate: Mapping
the Map, 200-1500 (History of cartography)
Webpage: Catalan
Atlas, 14th c: illustrations
Americas
Website: Early
Americas Digital Gateway & Archive: full texts of primary sources
in English, French, & Spanish; on the site or links
Early Cities of
the Americas (Common Grounds special issue)
Website: Theories
about the Bering Strait Crossing
Pre-Columbian Culture Links (Inca,
Aztec, Maya, North American Indians, Research Opportunities)
Pre-Columbian & African (Benin) Art-Destroit
Institute for the Arts
Examples of Colonial &
Pre-Colonial Architecture in the Americas
Images from Mesoamerica,
pre- and post-conquest
Tikal, Story of a Rainforest
Capital -The Athena Review, 1999
Chocolate, the Food
of the Gods-The Athena Review, 1999
Ancient American Civilizations, the
Central Andes , Mesoamerica
(Powerpoint presentations, prof. JW Hoopes, U. Kansas), Mesoamerica
Web Resources
Aztec Manuscripts
Website: Aztec
Society
Lords of the Earth: Aztec, Maya
Inca Exchange
The
Nahua
Links to Arcaheology Sites-South
America; Central
America; North
America & Mexico
Websites: Inca Architecture,
Bolivian Raised-Land Farming, the Osmore
Drainage findings (Ceramics, etc, 900-1375AD)
Website:
Inca & Moche, Toltec,
Aztec,
Maya,
(Segments of the Central & South American WWW Research Institute at
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
sWebsite: Prof. R. Hooker, U. Washington, Civilizations
in America (includes Olmec, Toltec, Aztec, Maya,Iinca
Website: Tiwanaku
Polity (Andes), with additional
pages, including 1996 PhD Dissertation on Settlement
& Landuse in Pre-Columbian Cochabamba, Bolivia (by A. Higueras)
Website: Frank Salomon (U.Wisc) Huarochiri:
A Peruvian Culture in Time, includes a discussion of the quipu
(khipu)
Website: The
Inca, includes links to Inca
Road Systems, Origin Myths, a Bibliography & More; the Aztecs;
(Student Projects for an Anthropology Course, UWGB)
The
Inca (Spanish) (through Tupac Amaru)
AGE
OF DISCOVERY & CONQUEST
The
Estevanico Society--The Estevanico
Society is dedicated to scholarly research into the life and journeys
of Estevanico (also Esteban or Stephen the Black.) The society aims
to explore his origins in Morocco, his enslavement by the Portugese
and Spanish, and his historic journey through the American Southwest,
ending with his death at the Zuni Pueblo of Hawikuh.
Website: Fact,
Fiction & the New World The Role of Books in the Making of America
(Columbus, Travelers, Mapping, etc)
Website: Latitude: What
they Knew in 1440 & 1516 (P. Seed, Rice U.)
Webpage: Early Navigation
Methods
Columbus & the Age
of Discovery -- Over 1100 articles on-line.
The Columbus Letter
of 1494 -- original text, translation, historical context, Prof.
M. Edney, Univ. of Southern Maine (British Museum: About
the Columbus Letters: Were there 1, 2 or 3?)
Columbus' Letter to Luis Sant'Angel, 1493
Extracts
from Columbus' Journals/Logbooks
Lib. of Congress:1492- An Ongoing Voyage
LC Exhibits home page
Websites: Columbus' Navigation;
What Columbus'
Crew Ate; Columbus'
Crew
Columbus' Voyages
(weblinks)
Columbus' Lost
Ships
Website: US Capitol: The
Columbus Doors
Treaty
of Tordesillas (1494)
Texts: Requerimiento,
Montesinos Sermon, Patronato Real, etc (Spanish)
Bibliography: European
Expansion & Encounter (CUNY)
Examples of Colonial &
Pre-Colonial Architecture in the Americas
Indian
Demographic Collapse/ The missions (Prof. R. Jackson, Oneonta)
The
Journey of Coronado (1540),
by Pedro de Castaneda, 1596, at PBS Archives of the West
The
Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado, Report to the Viceroy from Cibola, August 1540
Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado, Report to the King from Tiguex, October 1541
Webpage: Brief
Biographies of Conquistadors
Maps: 4th Voyage of Columbus,
Voyage of Cortes,
1524 Map of Gulf of
Mexico, by Cortés Expedition, Orellana
& the Trek down the Amazon River (1540s)
Bibliography: Age of Discovery
(by themes, Spanish & Portuguese) Particularly strong on Portuguese
expansion, conquest & colonial society
Maps: Medieval
Europe (Halsall, Sourcebook)
European
Voyages of Exploration: Imperial Spain (webpage, U Calgary)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo: Historia
verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España (Spanish)
Timeline: Conquest
of Perú
Website/Timeline: Conquest
of Mexico
Bibliography: Conquest
of Mexico, Conquest
& Chroniclers of Perú, Bartolomé
de las Casas
Text: Capitulacion
to F. Pizarro for Conquest of Perú (Spanish)
Book: William
Prescott, Conquest of Perú (on-line); Alternate Site:
History of the Conquest of Perú
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America,"
Vasquez de Coronado (1542)
Web de Anza-U. Oregon site on
the conquest/colonization of upper california, 1770s, including various
primary sources of conquerors & explorers; see also the De
Anza Historical Trail Website; the De
Anza Expedition with list of original settler familie
Bibliography: Renaissance
Exploration
Bibliography: Africans
& the New World, Britian, 1655-1833
Website: Definitions of units of measurement, particularly the relation
of leagues
& miles
Website: The
Conquest Era ,
the 17th C, the
18thc, the
19th c, (Guanajuato State Government)(Spanish)
Website: The
Missions of Alta California, with timeline
Beginnings
of British Columbia, Spanish Heritage (Canada Gvt tourism site)
Website: Spain,
the US & the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
Website: El
Dorado: Wargaming South & Central American Conflicts--Conquest-1930s
Article: Alfred Crosby, The
Columbian Exchange; links
to on-line resources
Website: Seeds of Change
(sources of different foods)
Bibliography: Biological
& Cultural Exchange in the New World
AGE OF DISCOVERY: Maps
Maps, from
the Ancient & Medieval through Renaissance, including maps of the
"New World" (includes monographs on many)
Agnese Atlas
(1544) at Library of Congress-9 Plates of Portolan Charts
1562 Map
of America(Diego Gutierrez)
The
Conquest of Perú (Map)
The
Conquest of Mexico (Map)
Brief
History of Maps & Cartography by James S. Aber
More Maps: Hargrett
Collection (Georgia)
Maps--David
Rumsey Collection--Colonial & 19th. c Maps of North & South
America
Historical Maps-UTexas
Perry Castañeda Collection
New
World Maps & Site Plans (original & reconsructions, Athena)
Maps,
Paintings & Images of Colonial Latin America (UC Berkeley)
Maps
of the New World, Columbus to Lewis & Clark (15th-19th c), on-line
exhibition
Maps
& images, Americas
AFRICA
AT HOME & IN AMERICA
Pre-Columbian & African (Benin) Art-Destroit
Institute for the Arts
Bibliography: Africans
& the New World, Brittan, 1655-1833
The
Forest Kingdoms of Africa-pre 16thc., R.Hooker,
1996
Images
of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database
African Timeline: African
Empires (1-15th c); in
the Age of European Imperialism
Mystic Seaport --Exploring
Amistad, includes maps, primary documents, teaching tools, -- & how we make
history out of it
Duke U. Special Collections, Third Person, First Person:
Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library
Calidad
& Clase in Spanish America, 17th & 18th C. (McCaa)
Capturing a Maroon Slave, Saint Domingue, 1781
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives
Olaudah
Equiano, Interesting Narratives of the Life of O.E.... the African
(Hanoverr Historical Texts)
Casta
Paintings (27 of them; better quality in 2nd half)
Henry Louis Gates' Jr., PBS Special, The
Slave Kingdoms (1 of 4 episodes on Wonders of the African World
The Kennedy Center
African Odyssey Interactive--information on culture & the arts--History&
Geography Page
Website: Middle Passage,
with abolition timeline;
website with additional
timeline
Webpage: Political Atlas
of the African Diaspora
COLONIAL
SOCIETY
Website:
Colonial
Latin America, Prof. P. Bakewell, Emory
Webpages: Emory U., Colonial
Latin America, with webpages on Colonial
Administration, Viceroyalty-Peru,
Mexico,
as well as economy, mestizaje, music, architecture.
Colonial
Spanish America (U. of Chile, Spanish; society & institutions)
Laws
of Burgos (1512)
Instructions
to Governor Mendoza (1535)
Tithes Series: Chile, Mexico, Peru--by Richard L. Garner
Historical
Maps of the Americas-UTexas
Perry Castañeda Collection
Relaciones
Geográficas, 1570s & 1580s (on-line exhibit)
Relaciones Geográficas,
1570s&1580s-additional images & text (Spanish, English[Xonotla,PuertoRico])
Article: New
World Order: Casta Paintings (Y. Ramírez)
Webpage: Casta
Paintings, 18th c artist José Joaquín Magón
Article: Casta
Painting: Identity & Social Stratification in Mexico
Webpage: Casta
Paintings (27 of them; better quality in 2nd half)
Text: Solorzano
(1600s): Status
of the Mestizo
Maps--David
Rumsey Collection--Colonial & 19th. c Maps of North & South
America
New
Laws (1542)
Spain: Leyes
de Indias (Spanish) (PDF Version of 18th c. edn.)
Website: Guaman
Poma de Ayala--Nueva corónica
y buen gobierno -Images & text
Text: Solorzano
(1600s): Status
of the Mestizo
Text: Thomas Gage-1625-Description
of Mexico City
Website: Slides
of the Early Spanish Colonial Period (Prof. Cline, UCSB)
Website: Tlaxcala
(tourism page, with attention to colonial society & architecture,
as well as ecotourism, etc.)
Website: Colonial
Mexico (images, principally; from a commercial site)
Webpages: Colonial
Hacienda, Ejido,
San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Webpage: Principal
Institutions of Colonial America;, such as-audiencia,
-cabildo;
Attributes of the Casa
de Contratación; Consejo
de Indias; (Spanish)
Primary Source:
Informe: Fundación
Audiencia de Nueva Granada (Colombia) (Spanish)
Article: Tovar
Pinzón,
El Saber Indigena: La Visita...1559 (Spanish, on Indian manipulation
of visita)
Haciendas
in the Andes
Webpage: Spanish
Colonial Arts
Webpage: Colonial
Saint Augustine (Florida)
Website: Art History--Interesting illustrated pages on encomienda
& its elements, Creoles,
Castes,
Haciendas, Colonial
Economy City
& urban life, (Spanish)
Webpage: Research
in Maritime History on the Internet: resources
Website: Pirates
of the Spanish Main (good links); another site
Bibliography: History
of Ideas in Colonial Latin America
Website:
La América Española Colonial (Chile)
Webpage: Early
Peruvian Chroniclers
Webpage: Dutch,
Porgutugese Colonial History (good maps)
Webpage: Cartagena
de Indias
Webpage: Colonial
Mexican Art (Spanish)
Webpage: Historic
Urban Plans (Commercial, copies of maps, plans)
Webpage: Panama,
ca. 1770: Primary Source documents on Indian villages, mines, territories,
&c
Website: Historia
Colonial--Colombia (including Panama), 405 documents, primary &
secondary sources
An
Account of the Pueblo Revolt by
Don Antonio de Otermin, governor and captain-general of New Mexico (1680).
BOURBON
REFORMS, REVOLT & INDEPENDENCE
Map-Independence
in Latin America (in French)
Text: Alexander
von Humboldt,Problèmes
d'Amérique Latine (1800)
Text: A.
von Humboldt on New Spain (1811); on
mining
Text: Concolorcavo:
El
Lazarillo de ciegos caminando (full text, Sp.)
Text: Mariano
Moreno: Defense
of Free Trade
Text: Escritos
de 2 economistas, Colombia, 18th c
Maps--David
Rumsey Collection--Colonial & 19th. c Maps of North & South
America
The
French Revolution--With a chapter on the Haitian RevolutionKarl Marx, Revolutionary
Spain (1854)
Primary Source:
The Comunero Revolt: Document
Primary Source:
Capitulaciones
de los Comuneros (1781) (Spanish)
Plan of Tupac
Amarú Revolt: Document,
also Death
of T. A.
Webpage:
Napoleon Series. Several primary source in Reference, including
French Civil Code & Abdication of Ferdinand VII & Carlos IV
Autobiografía
de Don Manuel Belgrano (desde 1770 hasta la revolución de 1810
GENDER
Sor
Juana de la Cruz Internet Project
Our Lady of Guadalupe
History
of Virgin of Guadalupe
Nuns
of Colonial Mexico (Prof. Cline) (Also other clerics)
Bibliography: Women,
Gender & History in Latin America
Bibliography: Women
& Colonial Latin America
Syllabus: Women
of Colonial Latin America
Bibliography: Sor
Juana
Text: Catalina Erauso--Petition
to Spanish Crown, 1625
Text: Historia
de la Monja Alferez (Spanish; edn: Peru 2001)
Portraits: Catalina
Erauso (Lieutenant Nun)
Bibliography & Biography: Catalina
Erauso
AFRICAN
DIASPORA
U.
Penn African Studies Links Page
Afro-Mexican
History (an individual's page, with some historical figures of disputed
African ancestry)
The
French Revolution--With a chapter on the Haitian Revolution
Atlantic
World
H-Atlantic Resources
(Syllabi, Links, Bibliographies)
Spanish & Spanish
American texts, 16th-19th c. (in Spanish)
cBibliography: Atlantic
History (recent)
Caribbean
Pirates--Emory U.
Pirate
Vessels & other info (good website)
GEOGRAPHICAL
LOCATIONS
BRAZIL
CARIBBEAN
- Beinecke Library,
Yale, The Illustrating Traveler:
Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895.
- Webpage: Caribbean
Amerindian Org. (links, papers, books)
- Webpage:Puerto
Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age-LOC On-Line Cartographic Exhibit
- Webpage: Information on plantation owners
mentioned on Richard Ligion's 1657 map of Barbados --Names
-- and Landowners
with at least 10 acres of land,
1638
- Antique
Maps of Barbados: Ligon 1657, Flord 1674, Bowen, 1747
- Webpage: Windmills
of Barbados
- Caribbean
Pirates--Emory U.
- Webpage: Port
Royal Archives--Primary sources on-line: wills, maps, etc. of residents
of capital city of Caribbean pirates of 17th c
- Webpage: Pirates
of the Bahamas (by Ministry of Tourism)
- Webpage: Spain
in Florida
- Articles:
Index of articles published in the New West India Guide
CUBA
- U. Miamia: Resources
for "Memory & Record" : Cuban History
- Text: Ms. travel account, Cuba,
1875, by J. A. Springer, US Consular Clerk Havana
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
(Santo Domingo/Hispaniola)
HAITI
JAMAICA
NEW
SPAIN
- La
Malinche: A historical figure still hated by many (Clifford
Krauss, NYTimes, 1997)
- Sor
Juana de la Cruz Internet Project
- Bibliography on Africans
in Colonial Mexico (B. Vaughn)
- Text:
Thomas Gage-1625-Description
of Mexico City
- Text: A.
von Humboldt on New Spain (1811); on
mining
- Our
Lady of Guadalupe
- William Prescott,
History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843)
- Mesoamerica
--Yucatán, Central America, in pre-colonial & colonial times
- Mexico
in pre-colonial & colonial times (and modern)
- New
Spain: the Relaciones Geográficas Collection (Maps, U Texas)
- Website: The
Conquest Era ,
the 17th C, the
18thc, the
19th c, (Guanajuato State Government)(Spanish)
- Website: J. Lemon, Research--Encomienda
in New Spain
- Webpage: Viceroys
of New Spain (Spanish)
- Webpage: Colonial
Mexican Art (Spanish)
- Website: Economy
of Haciendas in Colonial Mexico
- Webpage: Casta
Paintings, 18th c artist José Joaquín Magón
KINGDOM
OF GUATEMALA (Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
- Alcaldes
Mayores, Tegucigalpa, to 1850
- Comayagua--A
Brief History
- Página
Histórica de El Salvador (by A. Lauria Santiago)
- Página
Histórica de Quezaltenango
- History
of Guatemala
- 1697
Map of Central America by Dampier
- Mesoamerica
--Yucatán, Central America, in pre-colonial & colonial times
- Information
on the Maya (various links)
- Santiago
de Guatemala (encyc. entry)
- Rare
books of the Colonial Period (covers)
- Conquest
of Guatemala (in Spanish)
- Mesoamerican
Agriculgure in 16th c. (in Spanish)
PERU
(Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile)
- Timeline
of the History of Peru
- Personalities
of Peruvian History
- Inca
Empire
- Atlas
de la Cultura Peruana (Inca
Garcilaso de la Vega)
- James Jacobs,
Tupac Amaru
- Ecuador
Antiguo (Spanish)
- Ecuador
Colonial (Spanish)
- Images
of Colonial Argentina, Bolivia & Brazil (The Athena Review)
- Website:
La América Española Colonial (Chile)
- Webpage: Early
Peruvian Chroniclers
NEW
GRANADA (Panama, Colombia, Venezuela)
- Primary Source: El
Carnero, 16th c text on conquest/foundation of Colombia
- Colonial
Panama (Prof. R. Jackson), a presentation
- R. Ferry, Colonial
Elite of Early Caracas, 1567-1767 (book available on-line)
- Website: Biblioteca Virtual, Banco de
Colombia--many documents &secondary sources, listed under Historia
Colonial (foundation of a city, real
cedula altering New Laws, vecinos'1621
letter to audiencia, visita
of Antioquia PRovince, 1614 &c, Historia
Urbana (such as "lugares
de españoles & pueblos de indios";
Ciudad Colonial de Bogotá
- Primary Source: Capitulaciones
de los Comuneros (1781) (Spanish)
- Primary Source:José
Ignacio de Pombo, Comercio & Contrabando en Cartagena (1800)
(Spanish)
- Webpage: Travels
in Colombia: Colonial, 19th, 20th c
- Article: Comercio
& monopolio en Cartagena: Consulado de Comercio (A. MacFarlane)
- Simon
Bolívar, a timeline
- An
essay on Simon Bolívar's role in South American independence
- Simón
Bolívar, texts (in Spanish)
RIO DE LA PLATA (Argentina,
Uruguay)
Diccionario de Autoridades
(1726-1739) Spanish official
dictionary of the mid-18th century (Select: DICCIONARIOS ACADEMICOS)
Website: Charles
V (Carlos V) in Spanish
Karl
Marx, Revolutionary
Spain (1854)
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