Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800 (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. The natural lords: asserting continuity, 1531?66; 3. Cacique informants and early Spanish texts, 1535?80; 4. Cacique-chroniclers and the origins of Creole historiography, 1580?1640; 5. Cacique-hidalgos: envisioning ancient roots in the mature colony; 6. Cacique-patrons: Mexicanizing the Church; 7. Cacique-letrados: an Indian gentry after 1697; 8. Cacique-ambassadors and the 'Indian nation' in Bourbon Mexico; 9. Conclusion.