This article analyses the different forms of procuration that existed in the Hispanic Monarchy during the 16th Century and presents a typology for its study. The authors propose to distinguish two types of procurators: ...

This article examines the multiple actors and varied strategies that contributed to turn smallpox vaccination into a central – albeit inconsistent – practice in Mexico City between 1803, when the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine ...

The consolidation and expansion of the public health programs in Mexico during the course of the first half of the twentieth century was possible due to the work of numerous women in the different branches of nursing: as ...

This article offers an overview of multiple strategies that can be considered as resistance. It contemplates different kinds of actions: from violent uprisings to daily practices that disrupted the colonial domination along ...

This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old ...

Los temas escogidos para integrar este libro forman parte de la agenda de investigación que Ignacio del Río desarrolló y sugirió también a otros historiadores, fueran colegas o alumnos suyos. Del Río fue una figura de ...

The proposal of this book is to become acquainted with the details of the long-standing titular feast that the Indians offered to Virgin Mary of Guadalupe at the sanctuary on Tepeyac Hill, between the sixteenth and twentieth ...

The topic developed in this work is the way in which agrarian reform was manifested in the La Laguna region, a border area between Coahuila and Durango, from the beginning of the Revolution but especially from 1917 on. ...

The study of the ceramic is fundamental to the archaeologist because is through of it is possible get to know the different cultures. The information in this volume constitutes a handbook of the ceramic of Mesoamerica, and ...

Uno de los problemas que más despierta el interés de estudiosos del pasado indígena en México es la cuestión de Tula y los toltecas. El presente trabajo aborda este tema desde la perspectiva de la historia de la historiografía. ...