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: ...

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 ...

Interesting study about the controversy has broken out between distinguished representative of the novo Hispanic and metropolitan scientific community, as José Antonio de Alzate, Vicente Cervantes, José Dionisio Larréatequi ...

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 original script of this document is at the General Archive of the Nation. Since it lacks of author and date, its analysis suggests it was written between the third of fifth decade of the eighteenth century. Chevalier ...

Essay on the personality and political action of Phillip II of Spain. The Spanish historian Crevea, tries to explain the King’s behavior in his historical context without appealing to moral judgements.

En la nueva edición de La formación de la hacienda en la época colonial. El uso de la tierra y el agua se describe el desarrollo agrícola y ganadero en Nueva España durante los siglos XVI al XVIII, con base en mapas, planos ...

After the preface, where the author refers to the sources and bibliography –not plentiful- he could get, Martínez del Rio organizes his work in two parts: The first, “Historical process” begins with the Spanish penetration ...

Basically, this work presents 50 facsimiles chosen by the author among 135 sheets that shape a manuscript book, dated on December 28, 1785, made by the master don Rafael Ximeno. The interest for the work is because it is ...