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The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555
The Encomenderos of New Spain 15211555
Author: Robert Himmerich Y. Valencia
While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas--"a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous poli...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292731080
ISBN-10: 0292731086
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 348
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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