History of the Atlantic World

This episode details the entradas of Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez,  Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés,  Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Castaño de Sosa, Antonio Gutiérrez de Humana and Francisco Leyva de Bonilla, Juan de Oñate, Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban de Dorantes, and more.  The episode concludes with the creation of two backwater colonial outposts, Santa Fe and St. Augustine - and a North American apocalypse.

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Latin American Civilization
One Vast Winter Count
Europe and the People without History
The Spanish Borderlands Frontier
The History of Latin America
The Martyrs of Florida
Imperial Spain's Failure to Colonize Southeast North America
Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe
Empires of the Atlantic World
The Last Conquistador
The Spanish Frontier in North America
Narrative of the Coronado Expedition
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
The Southern Voyages
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Frontiers: A Short History of the American West

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Jesse speaks with Dr. Henning Hillmann, author of The Corsairs of Saint-Malo.   Dr. Hillmann has some very interesting things to say about the connections between privateering and capitalism. 

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LIST OF TOPICS: Intro, Whose Conquest?, Building Mexico City,  Life in Early New Spain, Reasons for Expansion, Cristobal de Tapia, Gonzalo de Sandoval, Conquest of Chiapas, Conquest of Oaxaca, Conquest of Michoacan, Conquest of Colima, Francisco de Garay and the Conquest of Panuco, Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, Cristobal de Olid and the Conquest of Honduras, Pedrarias Davila and the Conquest of Nicaragua, Francisco de Montejo and the Conquest of the Yucatan, the Rise and Fall of Nuno de Guzman, The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, the Mixton War, Conclusion

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The Broken Spears
Victors and Vanquished
The Conquistadors
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
Indian Conquistadors
Rereading the Conquest
The Nahuas After the Conquest
The War for Mexico's West
Nuno de Guzman and Panuco
The Golden Empire
The Conquest of Michoacan
The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico
Conquest of the Sierra
Provinces of Early Mexico
Strike Fear in the Land
Ambivalent Conquests
The Early History of Greater Mexico
Latin American Civilization
The History of Latin America
The Course of Mexican History
Mexico and the Spanish Conquest
History of the Conquest of Mexico

The Memoirs of the Conquistadhor Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2)
Cortés, Hernán. Cartas y relaciones de Hernan Cortés al emperador Carlos V. Edited by Pascual de Gayangos
Warren, Fintan. “The Caravajal Visitation: First Spanish Survey of Michoacán.”
Sheptak, Russell N., and Rosemary A. Joyce. “Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth Century.”
Wagner, Henry R. “Early Silver Mining in New Spain.”
Newson, Linda. “The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Century
Fowler, William R., and Jeb J. Card. “Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador.”
The Conquest of Michoacan: The Spanish Domination of the Tarascan Kingdom in Western Mexico, 1521-1530

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The Apotheosis of Franklin https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/221528

Brunias' Linen Market https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21113

From Johns Hopkins Press:

"Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."—Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)

A history of the book in the Americas, across deep time, would reveal the origins of a literary tradition woven rather than written. It is in what Danielle Skeehan calls material texts that a people's history and culture is preserved, in their embroidery, their needlework, and their woven cloth. In defining textiles as a form of cultural writing, The Fabric of Empire challenges long-held ideas about authorship, textuality, and the making of books.

It is impossible to separate text from textiles in the early modern Atlantic: novels, newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets were printed on paper made from household rags. Yet the untethering of text from textile served a colonial agenda to define authorship as reflected in ink and paper and the pen as an instrument wielded by learned men and women. Skeehan explains that the colonial definition of the book, and what constituted writing and authorship, left colonial regimes blind to nonalphabetic forms of media that preserved cultural knowledge, history, and lived experience. This book shifts how we look at cultural objects such as books and fabric and provides a material and literary history of resistance among the globally dispossessed.

Each chapter examines the manufacture and global circulation of a particular type of cloth alongside the complex print networks that ensured the circulation of these textiles, promoted their production, petitioned for or served to curtail the rights of textile workers, facilitated the exchange of textiles for human lives, and were, in turn, printed and written on surfaces manufactured from broken-down linen and cotton fibers. Bringing together methods and materials traditionally belonging to literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, The Fabric of Empireprovides a new model for thinking about the different media, languages, literacies, and textualities in the early Atlantic world.

Learn all about some of the challenges that mixed people faced in early America.  

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From UNC Press Website: "The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as "Mulattoes," "Mustees," and "mixed bloods"—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies. Thousands of mixed-heritage people appear in the records of English colonies, largely in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean, and this book provides a clear and compelling picture of their lives before the advent of the so-called one-drop rule. Wilkinson explores the ways mixed-heritage people viewed themselves and explains how they—along with their African and Indigenous American forebears—resisted the formation of a rigid racial order and fought for freedom in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies shaped by colonial labor and legal systems.

As contemporary U.S. society continues to grapple with institutional racism rooted in a settler colonial past, this book illuminates the earliest ideas of racial mixture in British America well before the founding of the United States."

Dr. Wilkinson Academic Bio:  https://www.unlv.edu/people/ab-wilkinson

Jesse gives his take on the classic and epic tale of the conquest of Mexico feat. Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma II, et al.  He asks important questions as well, like, "Do you believe in human sacrifice?"

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Primary Sources

Letters from Hernán Cortés

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2)

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2)

The Conquistadors, Edited and translated by Patricia de Fuentes

Victors and Vanquished, Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz

The Broken Spears, Miguel Leon-Portilla

Secondary Sources

Latin American Civilization edited by Benjamin Keen

The History of Latin America, Marshall Eakin

Mexico and the Spanish Conquest, Ross Hassig

De Orbe Novo, Peter Martyr

The Course of Mexican History, Meyer, Sherman, Deeds

The European Discovery of America, Samuel Elliot Morrison

The Aztecs, Michael Smith

Conquest, Hugh Thomas

History of the Conquest of Mexico, William Prescott

Jesse speaks with Dr. Alida Metcalf, historian at Rice University and an expert on the Atlantic World about her new book, Mapping an Atlantic World.

http://acm5.blogs.rice.edu/

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/mapping-atlantic-world-circa-1500#

https://rice.academia.edu/alidametcalf

Links

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A Difficult Truth news show  https://www.twitch.tv/adifficulttruth

Henry Charles Lea is a boring writer here is the proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kArOfpx-mAA&t=2s

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https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Inquisition-1478-1614-Anthology-Sources/dp/0872207943

https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Inquisition-Historical-Revision/dp/0300078803

https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Passages-Moriscos-Colonial-Americas/dp/0812248244/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AEDR762OPFZ2&dchild=1&keywords=forbidden+passages+muslims+and+moriscos&qid=1593139718&s=books&sprefix=forbidden+passages%2Cstripbooks%2C182&sr=1-1

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Transcript

Hello and welcome to the History of the Atlantic World Podcast, a member of the Big Heads Media Network.  This is part five of Conquest of the Americas.  I am your caffeinated host Jesse Wuest, thank you for listening.  Now, as you know Big Heads Media is sort of like a Netflix of Podcasts because what they do is sift through the great sandbox of the Internet to find the best podcasts and collect them for people who enjoy listening to them like you and me.  Needless to say that means we are part of an in awesome line-up of history podcasts.   One of them is Deep Into History which is an absolutely fantastic show:

I also want to tell y’all about a discord server that I’m involved with.  Discord is basically a pretty cool social media platform if you’re not aware and one group I’m a member of is called History Required.  History Required is a community of well, obviously history nerds like me, and they have really neat discussion points like Questions of the Day.  Anyway, I put a link to the community in the shownotes and so please check them out. And hey, you can find me there! WOW.

In addition, I also put a link up for a really cool political talk show that I’d like to promote on Twitch.TV.  Now I just recently learned about Twitch.tv myself but it’s basically a live Youtube.  Anyway, the show I like on Twitch.TV is called A Difficult Truth, which is basically a progressive talk show hosted by a dude who does news and politics and tries to bring the important issues to the front.  It airs 4 times a week, Monday-Thursday, What more can you ask for?  I put a link up for the show in the shownotes.

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One might sum up the conquest of the Americas basically as an extension of the crusades and especially of the Reconquista of Spain and Portugal.  These nations were reconquered by Christian warriors slowly and hundreds of years after the start of the Reconquista, the final Muslim kingdom Grenada capitulated to Spain.  In that same year, 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in the name of Ferdinand and Isabella, the most Catholic King and Queen of this most Catholic realm.   Now, last episode we learned that the conquest of the Americas wasn’t completely one-sided – while no American armies sailed to Europe to sack coastal villages – American ideas – and specifically, Brazilian ideas - certainly did cross the Atlantic and one migh...