Cronistas de las culturas precolombinas

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Cuando este libro apareció hace ya medio siglo, arrojó luz sobre uno de los temas más apasionantes de la historia social del México colonial y allanó el camino a las investigaciones sobre la heterodoxia religiosa en el seno de la comunidad hispana. Esta obra abrió una puerta que ahora permite captar los alcances de la diáspora del judaísmo hispánico entre principios del siglo XVI y mediados del XVII, es decir entre la llegada de los primeros judíos a la Nueva España y el gran auto de fe de 1649.

Presentamos al lector uno de los primeros libros, si no el primero, en que se intenta aunar todo lo relativo a los esclavos en la monarquía hispánica en toda su amplitud: desde los argumentos teóricos que se esgrimieron para aprobarla o condenarla, hasta la vida cotidiana y, lo que es más importante y casi inédito, la forma de pensar de los propios esclavos: cómo veían éstos no sólo su propia condición de esclavos, sino su propia vida en general.