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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
This year, 1992, marks the quincentenary or quincentennial of the first voyage of Columbus to the Western Hemisphere. In 1990, as Chair of the Mexican Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History, I invited two of the leading scholars on Mexico during the colonial period– Professor Jacques Lafaye (Universite de Paris IV) and Professor James Lockhart (UCLA)–to help set the debate for the upcoming anniversary by delivering a 20 minute summary of the role of Spain in the history of colonial Mexico at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco. The following essays are the result of that discussion held on December 29, 1990 in San Francisco.
Barbara A. Tenenbaum
Some of the points made in the above presentation are developed in three pieces I have published in rather obscure places: “Views of Corporate Self and History in Some Valley of Mexico Towns, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in The Inca and Aztec States, ed. by Collier, George A., et al., (New York: Academic Press, 1982), pp. 367–93Google Scholar; “Some Nahua Concepts in Postconquest Guise,” History of European Ideas, 6(1985): 465–82; and “Charles Gibson and the Ethnohistory of Central Mexico,” Occasional Papers of the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), No. 9 (1988). The entire process discussed is laid out in detail in my book The Nahuas After the Conquest, forthcoming from Stanford University Press, and it is systematically summarized in the first chapter of my Nahuas and Spaniards (Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center, 1991). (This anthology also contains the 1982 and 1988 articles just mentioned.)
