Front Matter Source: Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jul., 1970) Published by: Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/175017 . Accessed: 08/05/2014 23:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Thu, 8 May 2014 23:22:34 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Front MatterSource: Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jul., 1970)Published by: Center for Latin American Studies at the University of MiamiStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/175017 .
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CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE For the Instruction and Information of the Indians
By PEDRO de CORDOBA Translated and with an Introduction by Sterling A. Stoudemire
Pedro de Cordoba's Doctrina cristiana was for many years considered to be the first book printed in America. This "manual," originally published in 1554 in Mexico by the House of Cromberger, was used by the missionaries of Espafiola, now the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as an aid in Christianizing the Indians.
The translator has captured the simplicity and flavor of the original in his careful translation. Because the Indians had been practicing a religion very different from the one the missionaries offered, the basic Christian doctrine had to be adapted in order to be at all relevant. Thus we find admonitions to the natives not to eat their neighbors or marry their sisters.
Dr. Stoudemire points out many intriguing things in his introduction. For example, an interesting side effect of the success of this book and others like it was that Negroes had to be imported into America as slaves to replace the Indians, who, once they became Christians, refused to remain the property of the Spanish landowners. The historical introduction is augmented by an extensive bibliography that will be of particular interest to scholars of Latin American history.
Dr. Stoudemire, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, is the author of many articles on Hispanic themes and is past president of the South Atlantic Modem Language Association.
144 pp. November, cloth, $4.95
University of Miami Press Coral Gables, Florida
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EUGENE D. GENOVESE, a U.S. historian who has specialized in the his- tory of slavery viewed in a world perspective, is chairman of the department of history at the University of Rochester * * * CHARLES D. AMERINGER is the author of several articles dealing with Bunau-Varilla's struggle for the Panama canal route. His new book on the Caribbean democratic left-in-exile will be published soon by the University of Miami Press * * * LESTER D. LANGLE,Y, who received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Kan- sas, moves in September to the history department of the University of Georgia in Athens * * * FRANCISCO JOS1, MORENO received his law degree from the University of Havana and his Ph.D. from New York University. He is the author of Legitimacy and Stability in Latin America * * * CHARLES A. FRANKENHOFF served from 1967 to 1969 as an economic consultant on housing policy to the Chilean Ministry of Housing and Urbanism * * * LOWRY NELSON, a rural sociologist, is the author of Rural Cuba and nu- merous other studies dealing with Latin American sociology * * * PAUL W. DRAKE is currently engaged in a political science research project in Chile under a Foreign Area Fellowship program * * * DONALD E. CUR- RY received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University where he specialized in the anthropology of religion * * * JOHN W. FREELS, JR. who received his Ph.D from the University of California, Riverside, teaches politi- cal science at the University of Florida.
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