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Pequeñas propietarias y revoltosas campesinas tlaxcaltecas en vísperas de la Revolución
(2025)"During the second half of the 19th century, the increasing subdivision of rural estates in the state of Tlaxcala provided an unusual opportunity for women to gain access to property. This access was structured within ... -
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Cristina Sacristán. El ruido y el velo. Perder los derechos civiles en el México liberal. El caso Raigosa, 1872-1879 (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora/Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024) 357 pp.
(2025)"This review examines Cristina Sacristán’s work, which focuses on the interdiction trial brought by Manuela Moncada against her husband Felipe Raigosa in nineteenth-century liberal Mexico. Through this case, the author ... -
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Cambio institucional, representaciones y constitución de empresas con participación femenina en la ciudad de México, segunda mitad del siglo XIX
(2025)"This article explores the representations of women who exercised property rights and promoted business initiatives during the second half of the 19th century. To this end, it analyzes how they were depicted in the legislative ... -
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Mujeres propietarias en las selvas de Campeche: liberalismo en la expansión fronteriza decimonónica mexicana
(2025)The text aims to examine the trajectories of rural women landowners in the tropical forests of southern Campeche during the expansion of Mexico’s southern border through the privatization of property rights over the jungle. ... -
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Hacendadas y otras mujeres durante la “Guerra de Castas” en Yucatán
(2025)"This work examines the role of women in times of war, focusing on two groups of women who, although they did not suffer violence firsthand, were nonetheless affected by the consequences of the Caste War in Yucatán in 1847. ... -
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Las mujeres de la minería de Guanajuato en la primera mitad del siglo XIX
(2025)"This article analyzes the role of women in mining in Guanajuato using documentation from the Diputación de Minería De Guanajuato, whose main characteristic is its precise recording of the active workforce in this industry. ... -
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Mujeres y propiedad en la ciudad de Oaxaca, 1800-1887
(2025)"This purpose of this article is to make visible the presence of women as property owners in the city of Oaxaca. During the 19th Century, they had few opportunities to express themselves in public spaces, as they were not ... -
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Viudas, tutoras y minería: la experiencia de Josefa Gertrudis Nieto Téllez-Girón en San Luis Potosí, segunda mitad del siglo XVIII
(2025)"The aim of this work is to analyze the participation of women in mining in New Spain, focusing in the areas of ownership and management. To this end, a case study is conducted on Josefa Gertrudis Nieto in San Luis Potosí ... -
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Mujer y minería en los Andes Azogueras en Oruro y Potosí a fines del siglo XVIII y principios del siglo XIX
(2025)"This work aims to highlight a group of miner businesswomen who were not only owners but also operated and managed their business in different Andean plateau (nowadays Bolivia) mining centers, during the late 18th century ... -
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Cambio institucional, derechos de propiedad, actividades económicas y género en la historia
(2025)Presentation of the special issue (May 2025) of Studies in Modern and Contemporary History of Mexico. -
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Ben Leeming. 2022. Aztec Antichrist. Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico. Louisville: University Press of Colorado. xxxi + 281 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes Ben Leeming’s Aztec Antichrist, which focuses on two 16th-century religious plays in Nahuatl composed by Fabián de Aquino. Through philological, historical, and theatrical analysis of these neixcuitilli, ... -
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Leonardo López Luján y Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, coords. 2022. Los animales y el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan. México: El Colegio Nacional/Harvard University. 818 pp.
(2025)This review examines the collective volume Los animales y el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan, edited by Leonardo López Luján and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, which compiles 34 contributions from an international colloquium and ... -
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David Stuart. 2021. King and Cosmos. An Interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone.San Francisco: Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, 158 pp.
(2025)This review examines David Stuart’s King and Cosmos, an innovative interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone that proposes reading it as a hieroglyphic design in which writing and iconography converge. Stuart argues that ... -
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Eloise Quiñones Keber (1941-2023)
(2025)Obituary for art historian Eloise Quiñones Keber (1941–2023), emeritus professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Written by one of her former students, the text traces her ... -
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La pillahtolli y la macehuallahtolli: Formas nahuas de hablar registradas en los Primeros memoriales
(2025)"In the Primeros memoriales by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his collaborators there is a group of brief texts on the ways that the nahua allegedly used to speak. These texts are particularly defined by being the speech ... -
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Rafael Tena, ed. y estudio introductorio. 2021. Tira de la Peregrinación. México: Secretaría de Cultura/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 36 pp. + Facsímil + 4 mapas.
(2025)This review analyzes the facsimile edition and introductory study by Rafael Tena on the Tira de la Peregrinación (Codex Boturini), published by INAH in 2021. The volume includes an analysis of the codex’s 22 folios, an ... -
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Johannes Neurath. 2023. Las religiones indígenas de Mesoamérica. Historia, ritos y transformaciones.Buenos Aires: Sb Editorial. 196 pp.
(2025)This review examines Johannes Neurath’s Las religiones indígenas de Mesoamérica, a critical work that questions the very notion of Mesoamerica as a colonial construct and offers a decolonial reinterpretation of Indigenous ... -
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Frances F. Berdan. 2021. The Aztecs. Londres: Reaktion Books Ltd. 208 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes The Aztecs by Frances F. Berdan, a current and accessible synthesis of Mexica civilization. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and documentary sources, the author addresses topics such as the ... -
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La Cihuacóatl de Calixtlahuaca Expresión de poder y religiosidad en el valle de Toluca
(2025)"This article focuses on the iconographic study of a sculptural piece from the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca, State of Mexico, which is associated with the religious numen known as Cihua-coatl, whose main attributes ... -
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Tlacotli Nuevos apuntes para la definición de una categoría nahua
(2025)"This article examines the tlacotli based on the analysis of documentary sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their profile is presented: the ways in which indigenous people acquired that condition; their rights and ...
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