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Caminos, puentes y hamacas. Tecnología vial vernácula en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
(2025)The aim of this text is to show the development of road infrastructure in a peripheral region of the viceroyalty of New Spain: the mayor’s office of Villa Alta, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, during the colonial period. ... -
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Enfermedades y atención a los pacientes ingresados en el Hospital de San Cosme y San Damián de Antequera, Oaxaca (1703-1710)
(2025)The article analyzes the medical care provided at the San Cosme and San Damián hospital in Antequera, Oaxaca, from 1703 to 1710. The main source is the only preserved book of the hospital which registers the admission of ... -
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La visión mestiza novohispana del siglo XVI sobre el sacrificio humano indígena
(2025)This article studies the imaginary of indigenous sacrifice in the mestizo vision of the 16th century. As primary sources I have used the three novohispanic mestizo narratives of the same period: Diego Muñoz Camargo, Juan ... -
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Los censos modernos en la monarquía hispánica y el proceso de desencanto del mundo con comentarios sobre el caso de Yucatán
(2025)This essay delves into the study of modern censuses in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, placing them in the context of the rationalization of authority. Utilizing the Weberian concept of the “disenchantment ... -
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De la autoridad civil a la eclesiástica. Los juicios contra Nicolás de Ales en Nueva España, 1590-1592
(2025)In 1590, a French vessel shipwrecked on the eastern coastline of the Yucatan peninsula. The survivors were prosecuted for pillage by the civil authorities. However, suspicions of offenses against the faith led to the opening ... -
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Historia de los fallidos viajes de Diego de Ontiveros Hinojosa de Yucatán a Tierra Firme, 1660-1685
(2025)Based on the events that marked the travel attempts from Mérida —in the bishopric of Yucatán— to Popayán —in the New Kingdom of Granada— of the clergyman Diego de Ontiveros Hinojosa, who had to assume the deanery in the ... -
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La administración de las temporalidades del Colegio de San Francisco Xavier de Puebla (1767-1773)
(2025)This article deals with the administrative dispositions that were taken after the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from New Spain. For this purpose, we will analyze the resolutions taken about the Jesuit institute of San ... -
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Nicole von Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman. Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
(2024)Review of Nicole von Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman. Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022). -
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Alejandro García-Montón, Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Nueva York/Londres: Routledge, 2022).
(2024)Review of Alejandro García-Montón, Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Nueva York/Londres: Routledge, 2022). -
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Genaro Valencia Constantino y Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa, El arzobispado de Guatemala. Documentos sobre su creación (1742-1747) (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, 2022).
(2024)Review of Genaro Valencia Constantino y Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa, El arzobispado de Guatemala. Documentos sobre su creación (1742-1747) (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, ... -
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Funerary Emblems in Manila and the Rise of Devotion to Jerónima de la Asunción, OSC (1555-1630)
(2024)This paper examines a collection of 42 funerary emblems, or jeroglificos in Spanish, crafted in honour of the Spanish Abbess Mother Jerónima de la Asunción (1555-1630), the foundress of the first female monastery in the ... -
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A “Large and Undisciplined” Clergy: Utopia and Reality of Reform to the Secular Clergy in the Archbishopric of Mexico, 1764-1810
(2024)This paper analyzes the reform of the secular clergy in the archbishopric of Mexico between 1764 and 1810 in two major regards: the excessive number of priests and their indiscipline. During the eighteenth century various ... -
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Review of Mark Santiago, A bad peace and a good war. Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799
(2024)Review of Mark Santiago, A Bad Peace and a Good War. Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020). -
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Muriel Laurent, ed., y comp., El sello de Amberes. Libros flamencos en Santafé, siglos xvi y xvii (Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes/Universidad del Rosario, 2021).
(2024)Review of Muriel Laurent, ed., y comp., El sello de Amberes. Libros flamencos en Santafé, siglos XVI y XVII (Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes/Universidad del Rosario, 2021). -
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The Questionnaire of the Cortes of Cádiz: notes and Reflections on the Ethnographic Potential of its Responses
(2024)This article aims to spark academic interest in exploring and analyzing the responses to the questionnaire issued by the Cortes of Cádiz in 1812. This questionnaire was designed to collect detailed information about the ... -
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Entre parroquias, misiones y territorios de conversión: la visita pastoral de Francisco Aguiar y Seijas a Querétaro y Sierra Gorda (1685-1686)
(2024)Este artículo pretende poner en relieve las diversas realidades religiosas y eclesiásticas que a su paso descubrió el arzobispo de México, Francisco Aguiar y Seijas, durante la visita pastoral que realizó por 34 curatos ... -
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(2024)One of the elements of the mission programs on the frontiers of Spanish America was the creation of communities that conformed to norms established for urban planning by royal law, or, in other words, to the grid plan. ... -
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The Site of Cuautla: An Approach to the Knowledge of the Insurgents from Prosopography and Infidelity (1812)
(2024)This research analyzes three fundamental aspects of the siege of Cuautla: the reasons that motivated thousands of Cuautla residents to enlist in the insurgent ranks of priest Morelos, the causes that later led them to ... -
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“The Real Reason for Censorship, in my Opinion”: Satire and Scandal in the Diario Literario de México (1768), Alzate’s First Gazettes
(2024)The Diario Literario de México (1768) by José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez was suspended after only eight issues. This article puts forth a new interpretation of the events that led to the revocation of the printing license, ... -
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“A estos ídolos les levantaban humilladeros”: Rhetoric of the Evil in the Work by Andrés Pérez de Ribas (1645)
(2024)This article seeks to analyze the Jesuit rhetoric in the work Historia de los trivmphos de nuestra santa fee entre gentes las más bárbaras y fieras del nueuo orbe, written by the Cordovan Andrés Pérez de Ribas and published ...