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100	1		_aNesvig, Martin Austin, _d1968- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPromiscuous power : _ban unorthodox history of New Spain / _cMartin Austin Nesvig.
246	3	0	_aUnorthodox history of New Spain
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aAustin, TX : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axii, 252 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-233) and index.
505	0		_aThe conquest of Michoacán, paradise's lost and found -- Burning down the house, in which the spiritual conquistadors go to war with each other -- "I shit on you, sir"; or, a rather unorthodox lot of Catholics who didn't fear the Inquisition -- The Inquisition that wasn't there, in which the locals removed the Inquisition's agent from office and the Inquisition gave up -- The crown's man : an "incorrigible delinquent," in which a bunch of sketchy and murderous dudes wrought havoc in Colima -- Caudillo priests, in which the locals triumphed and trampled the crown.
520			_a"Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitiors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents--magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others--who knew little and cared less about the goals of their superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Through a case study of the province of Michoacán in western Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses on the prosaic agents of colonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting view of the complexities of making empire at the ground level. Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the archives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of Michoacán were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened by the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and thoroughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His findings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which asserts that the royal state and the institutional church colluded to produce a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig finds that Michoacán--typical of many frontier provinces of the empire--became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical control and formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law, jurisprudence, and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of decentralized rule"--Back cover.
651		0	_aMexico _xHistory _yConquest, 1519-1540. _922022
651		0	_aMexico _xHistory _ySpanish colony, 1540-1810. _973617
651		0	_aNew Spain _xHistory.
651		0	_aMichoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) _xHistory.
650		0	_aInquisition _zNew Spain.
651		0	_aNew Spain _xChurch history.
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