Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru [Paperback]

Luis Martin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870742973
• ISBN-13: 978-0870742972
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,093,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Matriarchs of Feminism, January 3, 2002

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Alex Lukic "cool_book_man" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru (Hardcover)

I had the privilege and honor to be one of Professor Luis Martín's pupils at SMU a decade and a half ago. I recall his playful, excitable and gregarious personality, as well as his trademark lectures in which he typically juggled history, theology, poetry, sociology and hard-core Sevillian gossip!

Such is the trademark of his writing in "Daughters of the Conquistadores." Don Luis artfully stretches the imagination of the reader by plotting in occurences and tribulations of nuns, divorcees, concubines, "tapadas" and "beatas" in the colonial Peru of 1550-1800. In a most authentic and self-bred style, he narrates the mysteries and abuses taking place in convents and nunneries, haciendas and palaces; and underlines the influence of women in a society relentlessly dominated by "Don Juanism" and sternly regulated and probed by an over-zealous Catholic church.

A book tough to research and tougher to write, "Daughters of the Conquistadores" is fun to read, bare of profound insights and laden with satyrical, albeit tragic, anecdotes.

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, September 2, 2011

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John - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daughters of the Conquistadores (Paperback)

I read this book by Luis Martin years ago and never forgot it. I have just bought it and plan to read it again and pass it on. It is very enjoyable and easy reading, and is an excellent history book, also. One of a kind.

4.0 out of 5 stars Historical, April 14, 2010

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Lee A. Trujillo Lopez "Lee Trujillo" (Centennial, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughters of the Conquistadores (Paperback)

Enjoyed the history of the women who followed the conquistadors to South America, the way they thought and lived.