Poole, Stafford

Christianity comes to the Americas, 1492-1776 by Charles H Lippy ( Book )
8 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,003 libraries worldwide
In 1492, civilizations entirely unknown to one another dramatically confronted their differences along a line that eventually extended from Nova Scotia to Tierra del Fuego. Over three centuries, the religious, political, and economic pressures of Europe motivated a nearly complete cultural sweep over the entire Western Hemisphere. In Christianity Comes to the Americas, three distinguished historians retell, from the vantage point of the latest historical scholarship, the story that began in late medieval Western Europe and came to a conclusive turning point near the end of the eighteenth century. Stafford Poole brings to life the entire movement of Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores, mendicants, and missionaries throughout South and Central America, the Caribbean, Florida, Mexico, and the American Southwest. The accomplishments and anguish of such figures as Bartolome de las Casas, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Antonio Vieira, and Juan de Zumarraga, among others, take center stage over the exploits of Pizarro, Cortez, Balboa, and Coronado. Robert Choquette tracks the French Catholic missionaries who crisscrossed the American continent, including Jesuit martyrs and Saint Marguerite Bourgeois of the St. Lawrence River Valley. He tells of missionaries shooting rapids and driving dog teams in America's vast hinterland and of Brother Andre performing miracle cures in Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory. Charles H. Lippy follows the reform movements of Calvin and Luther as they extended to the settlements all along the Atlantic coastline. Lippy's narrative traces the dilemma of Puritan covenant ideology personified in the lives of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams, the vicissitudes of the colonial Anglican church, and the contributions of Quakers like William Penn, who bridged the ideals of Puritanism and the ideals of the Enlightenment. Christianity Comes to the Americas tells a complex story of grand ambition, great tragedy, and selfless humanitarianism. We see the visionary ideals of fervent men and women, the conflicts between soldiers and missionaries, and the sometimes brutal clash between colonizers and colonized over practices of nudity, cannibalism, torture, family relationships, worship, and conversion. All three historians write sensitively of the twentieth century issues spawned by colonial practices: slavery and ethnic persecution, ecological imbalance, isolationism, xenophobia, and regional independence, Christianity Comes to the Americas is solid, comprehensive history presented here in a single, masterful work.

In defense of the Indians; the defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, late Bishop of Chiapa, against the persecutors and slanderers of the peoples of the New World discovered across the seas by Bartolomé de las Casas ( Book )
6 editions published between 1974 and 1992 in English and held by 965 libraries worldwide
Contains primary source material.

Our Lady of Guadalupe : the origins and sources of a Mexican national symbol, 1531-1797 by Stafford Poole ( Book )
11 editions published between 1995 and 2004 in English and held by 746 libraries worldwide
The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, based on the story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, an Indian neophyte, at the hill of Tepeyac in December 1531, is one of the most important formative religious and national forces in the history of Mexico. It has variously been interpreted as the source of Mexican national identity, a means of continuity between the Indian past and Spanish domination, a symbol of national liberation, and a way of evangelizing and pacifying the Indians. The aphorism "Mexico was born at Tepeyac" aptly summarizes its importance. In this, the first work ever to examine in depth every historical source of the Guadalupe apparitions, Stafford Poole traces the origins and history of the account, and in the process challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. This is revisionist history at its best and will undoubtedly provoke widespread scholarly debate.

Pedro Moya de Contreras : Catholic reform and royal power in New Spain, 1571-1591 by Stafford Poole ( Book )
5 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in English and held by 306 libraries worldwide

Juan de Ovando : governing the Spanish Empire in the reign of Phillip II by Stafford Poole ( Book )
2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 301 libraries worldwide

The story of Guadalupe : Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 by Luis Lasso de la Vega ( Book )
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 299 libraries worldwide

Religion in new Spain ( Book )
3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 298 libraries worldwide

Church and slave in Perry County, Missouri, 1818-1865 by Stafford Poole ( Book )
4 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 219 libraries worldwide

Seminary in crisis by Stafford Poole ( Book )
2 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 198 libraries worldwide

The Guadalupan controversies in Mexico by Stafford Poole ( Book )
4 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 198 libraries worldwide