James Lockhart (historian)
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James Marvin Lockhart is a U.S.
historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin America
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Born in Huntington, West Virginia
, Lockhart attended West Virginia University (BA, 1956) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison
(MA, 1962; PhD, 1967). He is an expert in the study of historical sources in the Nahuatl language and the postcolonial Nahua people. He is professor
emeritus
at UCLA. He is the principal founder of the New Philology
, a school of history built on the study of indigenous-language sources from colonial Mexico.
United States
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historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin America
Spanish colonization of the Americas
Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Christian faith through indigenous conversions...
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Born in Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...
, Lockhart attended West Virginia University (BA, 1956) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
(MA, 1962; PhD, 1967). He is an expert in the study of historical sources in the Nahuatl language and the postcolonial Nahua people. He is professor
Professor
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emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
at UCLA. He is the principal founder of the New Philology
New Philology
New Philology is a school within ethnohistory that seeks to describe the history of colonized people largely by using the colonized peoples' own written sources to understand their perspective of their own history...
, a school of history built on the study of indigenous-language sources from colonial Mexico.
Works
- Spanish Peru, 1532-1560 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968).
- The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972).
- Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period (with Frances KarttunenFrances KarttunenFrances Esther Karttunen , also known as Frances Ruley Karttunen, is an American academic linguist, historian and author. In her linguistics career Karttunen has specialised in the study of Mesoamerican languages such as Mayan but in particular Nahuatl, on which topic she has authored seven books...
, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976). - Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico (with Arthur J. O. AndersonArthur J. O. AndersonArthur James Outram Anderson was an American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture and translator of the Nahuatl language. He was renowned for his and Charles E...
and Frances Berdan, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976). - The Art of Nahuatl Speech: The Bancroft Dialogues (ed., with Frances KarttunenFrances KarttunenFrances Esther Karttunen , also known as Frances Ruley Karttunen, is an American academic linguist, historian and author. In her linguistics career Karttunen has specialised in the study of Mesoamerican languages such as Mayan but in particular Nahuatl, on which topic she has authored seven books...
, Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1987). - Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press; and Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1991)
- The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992).
- Of things of the Indies : essays old and new in early Latin American history, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
- Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation of Its Adverbs,(1645), Horacio CarochiHoracio CarochiHoracio Carochi was an Italian Jesuit priest and grammarian who was born in Florence, Italy, and died in Mexico. He is known for his grammar of the Classical Nahuatl language.- Life:...
, James Lockhart (translator)(Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001).