The document provides a comprehensive analysis of the significance of New Spain as a transoceanic bridge to the Asian Pacific during the 16th to 18th centuries, focusing on the role of the Manila galleon. Through a series ...

Was the native’s attachment to their religious traditions a symptom of superstition and idolatry? Was the local interpretation and appropriation of catholic rituals a symptom of ignorance? This book studies the way the ...

The keystone upon which Colonial society developed was the city. Administrative, economical, and ecclesiastical capitals, cities became intricate sites, whose inner workings were shaped by the presence of the church. In ...

The new edition of *The Formation of the Hacienda in the Colonial Era: Land and Water Use* describes the development of agriculture and livestock farming in New Spain from the 16th to the 18th centuries, based on maps, ...

The importance of the secularization program had been pointed in insistent way by historiography. However, still needing a detailed study of the subject in the Mexican archbishopric. This text present an analysis of the ...

This second edition, which has been revised and augmented with documentary appendixes —made by the author, here added by our editor¾, returns the work of father Del Barco to the hands of those specialists interested in ...