Artículos científicos de Historia Colonial
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Migrantes, solares y justicias en la ciudad de México: Yopico a finales del siglo XVI
(2025)This paper examines the conflicts over urban landholdings in the Indigenous Barrios(neighborhoods) of Mexico City at the end of the 16th century that arose due to the ... -
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Reseña de: Andrés Lira González y Leopoldo López Valencia (eds). Manuscritos del Concilio Tercero Provincial Mexicano (1585). Directorio de Confesores. Estudios, Zamora, Michoacán, El Colegio de Michoacán, El Colegio de México, 2022, 324 pp. ISBN 978-607-564-434-9
(2025)This review analyzes a compilation of studies titled "Manuscritos del concilio tercero provincial mexicano (1585). Directorio de Confesores", coordinated by Andrés Lira González and Leopoldo López Valencia. Dedicated to ... -
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La animadversión, la maledicencia y el incendio. Potzontepec, jurisdicción e Sultepec, arzobispado de México, septiembre de 1758
(2025)"In this paper we will deal with the case of an arson attack on the house where the lieutenant priest of the Indian village of Potzontepec, jurisdiction of Sultepec, in the archbishopric of Mexico, slept; an interesting ... -
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Persona-cuerpo-mercancía: la defensa de una dignidad encarnada desde la identidad femenina escindida. Ágata y Agustina frente a los tribunales judiciales de la Nueva Orleans española (1794)
(2025)This article presents some reflections on the possible lived experience of an embodied human dignity, different from the human dignity conceived in enlightened political and philosophical discourses. The article suggests ... -
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Reseña de: Adrian Masters, We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 319 pp. ISBN 978-100-931-541-8
(2025)This review analyzes Adrian Masters' book "We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World," which re-examines the creation of royal legislation for American colonies in the 16th century. ... -
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El departamento marítimo de San Blas como nodo articulador de nuevas informaciones geográficas sobre el Pacífico septentrional
(2025)"The aim of this text is to show how the maritime department of San Blas operated as a key centre for geographic and cartographic information and knowledge. This role developed within the framework of its maritime ... -
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Los términos de la ciudad. El cabildo de México y la construcción de un territorio rural (1521-1540)
(2025)"This article examines the construction of the so-called “términos of Mexico city”, a complex rural territory composed of private orchards and vegetable patches, farm and grazing lands, common lands ... -
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El ámbito letrado de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
(2025)This essay takes as point of departure the identification and relational analysis of the sociabilities to which New Spanish polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) belonged, both in the more traditional lettered ... -
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Reseña de: Antonio Rubial García, Fortalezas de fe, pozos de esperanza. Una historia urbana de la Nueva España a partir de sus santuarios, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004, 461 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes Antonio Rubial García's book "Fortalezas de fe, pozos de esperanza. Una historia urbana de la Nueva España a partir de sus santuarios" (Fortresses of Faith, Wells of Hope. An Urban History of New Spain ... -
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De lo extraordinario a lo ordinario. Convención y fiscalidades de la «Unión de Armas» en Nueva España
(2025)"This paper approaches the configuration of the so-called ‘new royal service’ of the Union of Arms in New Spain as an instrument of mercantile regulation and an American fiscal convention. Its transformation into a royal ... -
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La traducción de literatura especular y la educación de las futuras autoridades indígenas en el Colegio de Tlatelolco (México, siglo XVI)
(2025)"The article shows the influence of European speculum literature on the education of Indigenous elites at the College of Santa CruzinTlatelolco in the sixteenth century. It analyzes an adaptation of the treatise De regimine ... -
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Reflexiones en torno al moderantismo, dictadura liberal y gobierno durante el régimen de Ignacio Comonfort
(2024)"The formation of a national state in Mexico was the great concern of Mexican politicians in the 19th century. What kind of government, what authorities, what was theconstitutional framework that was suitable to make such ... -
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Una mirada a las raíces familiares de Francisco de la Maza
(2023)"The article offers a historiographic review of biographical data on Fran-cisco de la Maza and reveals a significant lack of information regarding his family background. Due to his middle-class upbringing, Francisco de la ... -
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“Un batallón de dificultades”. Un debate jurídico y judicial, en torno al lugar del vicario general y provisor oficial en el coro de la catedral. México, siglos XVI y XVII
(2023)This article discusses, from a legal and judicial perspective, the conf lict between the archbishops of Mexico and the Cathe-dral Chapter, over the place that corres-ponded to the “vicario general y provisor oficial” in ... -
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Ser libres bajo el poder del rey. El republicanismo y constitucionalismo de Bartolomé de las casas
(2015)"This article sets out the foundations of Bartolomé de Las Casas's political thought through an analysis of the language and arguments he used in his interventions in the controversies of his time. Contrary to the ... -
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El algarrobo y la pitaya: las mujeres y los rituales de recolección en las misiones de Baja California y el Chaco siglo XVIII
(2024)Este artigo analisa a participação das mulheres indígenas na colheita e nos rituais associados a na Baixa Califórnia e a alfarroba no Chaco. Com base nas notícias e imagens deixadas pelos jesuítas do século XVIII, como ... -
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“Hombres que vivían como las mujeres” en la Alta California del siglo XVIII: Coyas / joyas, cuút o uluqi, ¿sodomitas, hermafroditas o amaricados?
(2024)This article analyzes testimonies of religious and military men, produced between 1770 and 1812, which give an account of Chumash, Juaneño and Yuma indigenous men of Alta California who were in the habit of dressing as ... -
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Reseña de: Leticia Pérez Puente, La Iglesia del rey. El patronato indiano y el libro “De la gobernación espiritual”, México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Anáhuac Veracruz, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación, 2021, 271 pp. ISBN 978-607-304-889-7
(2022)In "The Church of the King: The Indian Patronage and the Book 'On Spiritual Governance'," Leticia Pérez Puente analyzes the relationship between the Spanish Crown and the Church during the colonization of the New World, ... -
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Reseña de: Presentación del dossier: Oaxaca en movimiento: trayectorias de ideas, mercancías y gentes, siglos XVI al XVII
(2024)"Introduction to the dossier composed of seven works by specialists in the history of colonial Oaxaca. The studies share the analytical focus on the exchanges and mobilities that took place in the territory corresponding ...











