Abstract
A review essay on books by (1) Ricardo Leon Alanis, Los origenes del clero y la iglesia en Michoacan, 1525-1640 ([The Origins of the Clergy and the Church in Michoacan, 1525-1640] Morelia: U Michoacana San Nicolas Hidalgo, 1997); (2) Alberto Carrillo Cazares, Vasco de Quiroga: La pasion por el derecho ([Vasco de Quiroga: The Passion for the Right] Morelia: Colegio Michoacan, 2003); (3) Bernardino Verastique, Michoacan and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico (Austin: U Texas Press, 2000); & (4) James Krippner-Martinez, Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial Michoacan, 1521-1565 (University Park: Pennsylvania State U Press, 2001).
