Charles Gibson Biography

Charles Gibson (1920–85) was an ethnohistorian who studied the Nahua peoples of colonial Mexico. His most significant works are Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century (1952) and The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule.

Bibliography

The Inca concept of sovereignty and the Spanish administration in Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1948.

The Tovar calendar; an illustrated Mexican manuscript ca. 1585. Reproduced, with a commentary and handlist of sources on the Mexican 365-day year, by George Kubler and Charles Gibson. New Haven: The Academy, 1951.

Tlaxcala in the sixteenth century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.

Guide to the Hispanic American historical review, 1946-1955. Edited by Charles Gibson with the assistance of E.V. Niemeyer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1958.

The Aztecs under Spanish rule; a history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964.

Spain in America. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

The Spanish tradition in America. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Attitudes of colonial powers toward the American Indian. Howard Peckham and Charles Gibson, editors. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969.

The Inca concept of sovereignty and the Spanish administration in Peru. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.

The colonial period in Latin American history. 2d ed. Washington: American Historical Association, 1970, 1968.

The black legend; anti-Spanish attitudes in the Old World and the New. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Guide to the Hispanic American historical review, 1946-1955, edited by Charles Gibson, with the assistance of E. V. Niemeyer. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1976, 1958.