This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes Spanish colonialism in the early seventeenth century by examining the career of Diego Fern�ndez de C�rdoba. Fern�ndez served as viceroy of both New Spain (Mexico) and Peru during a period that featured strained race relations, new socio-economic tensions, and bitter conflicts between Catholic religious orders. His measured responses to Jews, the Inquisition, women, and local rebellions reveal a man determined to hold a vast empire together through the ...
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This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes Spanish colonialism in the early seventeenth century by examining the career of Diego Fern�ndez de C�rdoba. Fern�ndez served as viceroy of both New Spain (Mexico) and Peru during a period that featured strained race relations, new socio-economic tensions, and bitter conflicts between Catholic religious orders. His measured responses to Jews, the Inquisition, women, and local rebellions reveal a man determined to hold a vast empire together through the power of compromise. What emerges is a new understanding of an often-overlooked period in Latin American history. This book is a volume in the Understanding World History Through Biography series. It is the first work ever written in English about Fern�ndez.
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