Mexico's Golden Age - Katra, William H.
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The past two centuries have seen the near universal condemnation of the Spanish, beginning in the Sixteenth century, who forcefully imposed their domination over native peoples across the Americas. Yet, a most unusual circumstance underlies my choice to offer a new perspective of events during that time period in Mexico: the recent appearance of several important documents, written in Náhuatl by the chieftains of Cuernavaca who-after "the conquest"-continued to rule their respective communities under the more-or-less benign supervision of their new feudal lords, the Spanish. Unfortunately,…mehr

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The past two centuries have seen the near universal condemnation of the Spanish, beginning in the Sixteenth century, who forcefully imposed their domination over native peoples across the Americas. Yet, a most unusual circumstance underlies my choice to offer a new perspective of events during that time period in Mexico: the recent appearance of several important documents, written in Náhuatl by the chieftains of Cuernavaca who-after "the conquest"-continued to rule their respective communities under the more-or-less benign supervision of their new feudal lords, the Spanish. Unfortunately, that "Golden Age" of Mexican history lasted only a little more than a half-century; it was cut short by devastating plagues and the encroaching "political and moral degradation and vicious behavior" (in the words of historian Barbara Tuchman) that infected nearly every aspect of life in the West.
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William H. (Bill) Katra, an independent scholar, resides in La Crosse, Wisconsin, but spends time in both Uruguay and Mexico. He served in the Peace Corps in Uruguay from 1966 to 1968. With degrees from University of California-Berkeley (B.A. 1970) and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ph.D. 1977), his most important writings are: José Artigas and the Federal League in Uruguay's and Argentina's War of Independence (1810- 1820) (2014; in Spanish 2024); The Argentine Generation of 1837: Esteban Echeverría, Juan B. Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Bartolomé Mitre-(1996; in Spanish 2000 and 2024); and Domingo F. Sarmiento: Public Writer (Between 1839 and 1852) (1985). The Library of Congress named him contributing editor for its Handbook of Latin American Studies: Humanities (1990, 1992, 1994).