University of Texas Press, 2015. — 300 p. The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who created its forty-four illustrations. To...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 300 p. The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who created its forty-four illustrations. To...
México: INEHRM, 2021. — 357 p. — ISBN 978-607-549-331-2; ISBN 978-607-549-332-9. En 1910, con motivo de las fiestas del Centenario de la Independencia, circuló en México en dos tomos el libro Episodios históricos de la Guerra de Independencia, obra que en formato impreso ofreció el Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México en edición facsimilar en...
México: INEHRM, 2021. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-607-549-331-2; ISBN 978-607-549-334-3. En 1910, con motivo de las fiestas del Centenario de la Independencia, circuló en México en dos tomos el libro Episodios históricos de la Guerra de Independencia, obra que en formato impreso ofreció el Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México en edición facsimilar en...
Méjico: Imprenta de J. M. Lara, 1849 y 1850. — 634 p. Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) publica su gran obra sobre la independencia mejicana a partir de 1849, cuando este país se recupera de la invasión norteamericana, que le ha supuesto la pérdida de la mitad del territorio nacional. El autor, junto con sus ocupaciones empresariales y científicas, ha ocupado puestos relevantes en la...
Méjico: Imprenta de J. M. Lara, 1850 y 1851. — 491 p. Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) publica su gran obra sobre la independencia mejicana a partir de 1849, cuando este país se recupera de la invasión norteamericana, que le ha supuesto la pérdida de la mitad del territorio nacional. El autor, junto con sus ocupaciones empresariales y científicas, ha ocupado puestos relevantes en la...
Méjico: Imprenta de J. M. Lara, 1852. — 365 p. Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) publica su gran obra sobre la independencia mejicana a partir de 1849, cuando este país se recupera de la invasión norteamericana, que le ha supuesto la pérdida de la mitad del territorio nacional. El autor, junto con sus ocupaciones empresariales y científicas, ha ocupado puestos relevantes en la...
Méjico: Imprenta de J. M. Lara, 1849-1852. — 249 p. Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) publica su gran obra sobre la independencia mejicana a partir de 1849, cuando este país se recupera de la invasión norteamericana, que le ha supuesto la pérdida de la mitad del territorio nacional. El autor, junto con sus ocupaciones empresariales y científicas, ha ocupado puestos relevantes en la...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 270 p. The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780–1824 investigates the roots of the Mexican Independence era from a variety of perspectives. The essays in this volume link the pre-1810 late Bourbon period to the War of Independence (1810–1821), analyze many crucial aspects of the decade of conflict, and illustrate the continuities with the...
University of California Press, 2021. — 264 p. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (1778–1850) is an iconic figure in Mexican history. Known by the nickname “La Güera Rodríguez” because she was so fair, she is said to have possessed a remarkably sharp wit, a face fit for statuary, and a penchant for defying the status quo. Charming influential figures such as...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 316 p. — ISBN 10 0521523125 ISBN13 9780521523127. An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town,...
Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 310 p.
An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town, its role in the northward advance of...
Brill, 2018. — 365 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 24). In The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book discusses...
Stanford University Press, 2000. — 324 p. Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancías as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods marketable in the Spanish economy and to purchase expensive and undesired Spanish products. The author challenges this conventional...
Indiana University Press, 2003. — 276 p.
This book talks about african slaves in Spanish Mexico and how this phenomen corresponded with christian dogma of equality of men, reaction of native tribes and birth of new etnos - the Creoles
Routledge, 2004. — 417 p. To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship....
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 247 p. — Edited by William C. Foster. This authoritative, annotated translation of the 17th century text is essential reading for historians of New Spain and Spanish Texas. In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 224 p. Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 288 p. As Mexico entered the last decade of the sixteenth century, immigration became an important phenomenon in the mining town of San Luis Potosí. New silver mines sparked the need for labor in a region previously lacking a settled population. Drawn by new jobs, thousands of men, women, and children poured into the valley between 1591 and...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 324 p. In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission...
Translated from Old Italian. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 256 p. In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico to gather alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, he reached Mexico City in 1763. His account reveals the squalor, crime, and other perils in the viceregal capital, and details daily life:...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 352 p. Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm - which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century - new light is shed on how demographic,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. - 250p. List of Tables and Figures. Series Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. A Vulnerable Society. Changing Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and the ‘Double-Sided’. Structure of Vulnerability. Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico. Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico. Case Studies and Approach. Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South...
University of New Mexico Press, 2013. — 228 p. Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family--a mother, three daughters, and a granddaughter--from the time of the...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 312 p. This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui people in more than thirty years and...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 312 p. This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui people in more than thirty years and...
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018. — 224 p. El tomo revisa algunos de los proyectos de las llamadas reformas borbónicas y analiza el impacto que éstas tuvieron en los pueblos de indios, en la economía y las finanzas y en la vida sociopolítica de la capital del virreinato, así como el papel que jugó la Ilustración en ellas. Mucho se ha escrito acerca de las reformas del siglo...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 182 p. My book offers an interdisciplinary perspective, both in the goal and in the sources used. Although firmly set on a literary basis, my analysis shares concerns with other fields such as history, religion, and cultural studies in order to paint a complex picture of the first incursion of Europeans into the Americas. Varied too are the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 227 p. A continuation of Gerhard's Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain (1972, 1993), this volume concentrates on the colonial gobiernos and lesser administrative divisions of what is today easternmost Mexico. This revised edition (the first was published by Princeton in 1979) also adds a glossary and a key to map symbols.
University of California Press, 2018. — 264 p. Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by...
Stanford University Press, 1964. — 672 p. Here is the complete history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, one of the two most important religious groups in the Spanish empire in America, from the Conquest to Independence in the early nineteenth century. Based upon ten years of research, this study focuses on the effect if Spanish institutions on Indian life at the local level.
Polity, 1993. — 368 p. The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 223 p. — (Cambridge Latin American Studies 12). The province of Oaxaca in southern Mexico was one of the main sources of Spanish wealth during the colonial period. The largely indigenous population supplied dyes and cotton for the Spanish merchants trading both with Spain and within Mexico itself. Much of the trade was conducted in violation...
Editorial Debate, 2019. — 530 p. Esta biografía de Morelos -la más acuciosa hasta ahora- revela el camino que siguió ese arriero, ese estudiante y cura. Lo aleja del bronce, del mármol y de los mitos. Y nos entrega una de las vidas más fascinantes, más humanas y enternecedoras que puedan imaginarse. Entre la ilustración y la pobreza, entre el ansia de libertad y el afán por...
Routledge, 2016. — 230 p. Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. — 222 p. Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martínez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacán, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of...
Stanford University Press, 2006. — 328 p. Among the native-language documents written by the Nahuas of central Mexico after Spanish contact, the annals genre gave them the freest rein in expressing themselves. The premier practitioner of the Nahuatl annals form was a writer of the early seventeenth century now known as Chimalpahin. Until recently, attention went primarily to...
Stanford University Press, 1994. — 672 p. A monumental achievement of scholarship, this volume on the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact. Simply put, the purpose of this book is to throw light on the history of Nahua society and culture through the...
Stanford University Press, 2008. — 424 p. María Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how this notion surfaced amid...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 272 p. Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O’Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking". While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical memory, O’Hara - a Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock...
El Colegio de México, 2014. — 327 p. Guerra y gobierno es la anatomía detallada de la variopinta y larga guerra civil que se inicia en 1810, con variaciones geográficas y cronológicas, en términos de violencia, de organización militar, de opciones de futuro, y que dura hasta fines de 1825, con la capitulación de los últimos soldados y comandantes imperiales en San Juan de Ulúa....
Stanford University Press, 2008. — 392 p. Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 182 p. This book presents a unique set of written records belonging to the De la Cruz family, caciques of Tepemaxalco in the Toluca Valley. Composed in Nahuatl and Spanish and available here both in the original languages and in English translation, this collection of documents opens a window onto the life of a family from colonial Mexico’s...
Stanford University Press, 2012. — 519 p. This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821―one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-11164-6. This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The study of households excavated in Mexico City and the probate inventories of 39 colonizers provides a vivid view of the material and social lives...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 200 p. Ethnic rebellions continually disrupted the Pax Colonial, Spain’s three-hundred-year rule over the Native peoples of Mexico. Although these uprisings varied considerably in cause, duration, consequences, and scale, they collectively served as a constant source of worry for the Spanish authorities. This meticulously researched volume...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. — XVI, 271 p. — (The Bedford Series in History and Culture). — ISBN: 978-1-349-62632-8, 978-1-137-12143-1. In 1519 Hernán Cortés and a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrew the mighty Mexican empire of the Aztecs. Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies - many recently uncovered -...
2nd Edition — Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 288 p. The new edition of Victors and Vanquished highlights recent advances in the field of Mesoamerican ethnohistory that allow for a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the fall of the Mexica empire. A revised introduction is followed by eight chronological sections that illuminate the major events and personalities in...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 298 p. During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 248 p. Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the...
University of Arizona Press, 2020. — 336 p. The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 400 p. After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples - a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between...
Stanford University Press, 1979. — 257 p. This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule,...
University of California Press, 2021. — 224 p. Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 270 p. One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano’s transcription and translation, the first in more than a half century, combine with his deeply...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 345 p. For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 344 p. For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 384 p. In this timely book Nino Vallen tells the story of New Spain's gradual integration into the Pacific Basin and challenges established views about identity formation among the elites of colonial Mexico. It examines how discussions about the establishment and desirability of transpacific connections interacted with more general debates...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 304 p. This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America's modern ideology of racial mixture) and the colonial caste system is rendered. Before mestizaje emerged as a primary...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 296 p. The Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain,...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 296 p. The Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain,...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 479 с. В книге рассказывается о том, как народ одной из крупнейших латиноамериканских стран в результате многолетней героической борьбы изгнал испанских колонизаторов и создал свое независимое государство. Центральное место в работе занимает подробное изложение хода народного восстания против испанских угнетателей, происходившего в Мексике с 1810 по 1815 гг....
М.: Наука, 1979. — 174 с. В представленной читателям новой книге известного отечественного исследователя истории Латинской Америки подробно рассказывается о борьбе мексиканского народа за свою национальную независимость в начале XIX столетия (в 1810-1824), о деятельности возглавлявших ее революционеров Идальго и Морелоса, и об итоговой победе патриотов, добившихся изгнания...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 174 с. В представленной читателям новой книге известного отечественного исследователя истории Латинской Америки подробно рассказывается о борьбе мексиканского народа за свою национальную независимость в начале XIX столетия (в 1810-1824), о деятельности возглавлявших ее революционеров Идальго и Морелоса, и об итоговой победе патриотов, добившихся изгнания...
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