Can anyone suggest some books on Spanish colonial Life in the Americas? I recently went to the Avila Adobe house in LA and want to learn about the daily life of these people. Fiction or nonfiction is appreciated.
>>2614619
A Frenchman named Jean Francois de la Perouse wrote about his experiences with the California missions titled "Life in a California Mission".
I went there on a field trip.
>>2614619
JH Elliott - Empires of the Atlantic World
John Kessell - Spain in the Southwes
>>2614708
Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy might interest you, he takes excerpts from native and Spanish sources and retells them.
>>2614619
There's a movie called Yo la Peor del Todo. It's about the life of a rebellious, dissident nun in late 17th-century Mexico.