CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Jay I. Kislak Foundation	Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Historia general de las conquistas del nuevo reyno de Granada... Antwerp: Juan Baptista Verdussen, 1688. Larger view
Fernández's history focuses on the twin "missions" of civilization and Christianization undertaken by the Spanish in the New World. For Fernández, the Indians are pagan idolaters, corrupted by the Devil, but whose idolatry conceals glimpses of the true faith of the Spaniards.

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Colonial Fictions, Colonial Histories

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