http://hdl.handle.net/1983/965 2013-05-13T15:33:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/1983/992 An accidental Americanist: Sir Thomas Phillipps and Juan de Tovar's 'Historia de los indios mexicanos' (Bibliotheca Phillippica, MS 8187) Hook, D Hook, David The activity of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) in collecting manuscripts from Latin America and in publishing Juan de Tovar's 'Historia de los indios mexicanos' is studied in the context of his private correspondence. The impact of his Middle Hill Press edition of Juan de Tovar's text on Mesoamerican studies in the second half of the nineteenth century is examined. The study contains as an Appendix a detailed bibliographical description of the incomplete Middle Hill Press edition of Tovar's text. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1983/976 Opening new frontiers in colonial Spanish American history: new perspectives on indigenous-Spanish interactions on the margins of empire Williams, CA Over the past decade, the frontiers of Latin America have received an important scholarly boost, thanks to the research of a number of scholars who have shifted the focus away from the sedentary societies that the Spanish encountered in Mesoamerica and the Andean region to examine the protracted and difficult process whereby Spaniards incorporated, or attempted to incorporate, the mainly non-sedentary or semi-sedentary peoples who inhabited the margins of empire. Common to all these studies is a concern to explore the agency of indigenous peoples, and as this essay will show, they shed new light on, and contribute greatly to our understanding of, Indian responses to the challenges posed by Spanish colonization and missionization in regions long neglected in the historical literature. 2007-11-07T13:08:20Z