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Title:

The improbable conquest : sixteenth-century letters from the Río de la Plata / edited and translated by Pablo García Loaeza and Victoria L. Garrett.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xix, 121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Spaniards--Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--History--16th century.
Spaniards--Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--Correspondence.
Explorers--Spain--Correspondence.
Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--Spanish.--Spanish.
Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--History--16th century.
History.
Records and correspondence.
1500 - 1599
Discovery and exploration, Spanish.
Explorers.
Spaniards.
South America--Rio de la Plata Region.
Spain.

Other Authors:

Loaeza, Pablo García, 1972- translator. translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010028921
Garrett, Victoria L. (Victoria Lynn), 1981- translator. translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014132472

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112) and index.

Contents:

Selected letters from the Río de la Plata -- Pedro de Mendoza to Juan de Ayolas (April 21, 1537) -- Isabel Guevara to Princess Juana (July 2, 1556) -- Domingo de Irala to Emperor Charles V (March 1, 1545) -- Francisco Galán to Rodrigo de Vera (March 1, 1545) -- Juan Pavyenn to Martín de Agreda (June 15, 1556) -- Francisco de Andrada to the Council of the Indies (March 1, 1545) -- Martín González to Emperor Charles V (June 25, 1556) -- Domingo Martínez to Emperor Charles V (July 2, 1556).

Summary:

"A translation of letters written by settlers in the Río de la Plata region of South America during the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Latin American originals ; 9

ISBN:

0271065486
9780271065489

OCLC:

(OCoLC)892620246

LCCN:

2014028301

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)