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Article: Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History, by James Lockhart. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xii, 397 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper).
This collection of wide-ranging essays showcases the ongoing work of one of the most distinguished and productive scholars of early Latin America. It follows his earlier Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (1991). The prior compilation focused more narrowly on early Mexico with named topical sections dividing the book into four parts: "Nahuas," "Nahuatl Philology," "Historiography," and "Spaniards." Much of the detailed ...