Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T06:56:41.809Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Institutions and Society in Colonial Mexico

Review products

LAS MUJERES EN LA NUEVA ESPAÑA: EDUCACION Y VIDA COTIDIANA. By AIZPURUPILAR GONZALBO. (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 1987. Pp. 323.)
THE MAKING OF A STRIKE: MEXICAN SILVER WORKERS' STRUGGLES IN REAL DEL MONTE, 1766–1775. By LADDDORIS M. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Pp. 205. $21.95.)
BUREAUCRACY AND BUREAUCRATS IN MEXICO CITY, 1742–1835. By ARNOLDLINDA. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Pp. 202. $25.00.)

Show more reviewed productsShow more reviewed products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Cheryl English Martin
Cheryl English Martin*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at El Paso
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Essays
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , 1990 , pp. 188 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. For excellent reviews of recent historical scholarship on colonial Latin America, see Rodney Anderson, “Race and Social Stratification: A Comparison of Working-Class Spaniards, Indians, and Castas in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1821,” Hispanic American Historical Review 68, no. 2 (May 1988):209-44; John Kicza, “The Social and Ethnic Historiography or Colonial Latin America: The Last Twenty Years,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, vol. 45, no. 3 (July 1988):453-88; Eric Van Young, “Recent Anglophone Scholarship on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution,” Hispanic American Historical Review 65, no. 4 (Nov. 1985):725-44; and Eric Van Young, “Mexican Rural History since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda,” LAR 18, no. 3 (1983):5–62.

2. See, for example, William B. Taylor, Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1979); Nancy M. Farriss, Maya Society under Spanish Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984); and Robert S. Haskett, “Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca: Persistence, Adaptation, and Change,” Hispanic American Historical Review 67, no. 2 (May 1987):203–31.

3. Asunción Lavrin, “Ecclesiastical Reform of Nunneries in New Spain in the Eighteenth Century,” The Americas 22, no. 2 (Oct. 1965): 182–203; Lavrin, “In Search of the Colonial Woman in Mexico: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, edited by Lavrin (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978), 23–59; Silvia Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985); Josefina Muriel, Los recogimientos de mujeres: respuesta a una problemática social novohispana (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de México, 1974); and Luis Martín, Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983).

4. Steve J. Stern, “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean,” American Historical Review 93, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 829–72, 856–57, n. 72; and review by John Kicza, Hispanic American Historical Review 69, no. 1 (Feb. 1989): 164–65. In 1730, workers in Chihuahua fought and ultimately lost a similar struggle over the issue of the partido. See Cheryl E. Martin, “Labor Relations and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Chihuahua,” paper presented to the American Historical Association, Chicago, 27–30 Dec. 1986.

5. Susan Socolow, The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769–1810: Amor al Real Servicio (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987).

6. For previous scholarly work on the Mexican inquisition, see such examples as Richard E. Greenleaf, The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969); and Stanley Hordes, “The Crypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620–1649: A Collective Biography,” Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1980.

7. See, for example, Carlo Ginzberg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi (New York: Penguin, 1982); and Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1983).

8. Van Young, “Recent Anglophone Scholarship”; Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and John Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).

9. Serge Gruzinski, Les Hommes-dieux du Mexique: Pouvoir indien et société, XVe–XVIIIe siècles (Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 1985).

10. Van Young, “Millenium on the Northern Marches: The Mad Messiah of Durango and Popular Rebellion in Mexico, 1800–1815,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 28, no. 3 (July 1986):385-413; and Van Young, “Quetzacoatl, King Ferdinand, and Ignacio Allende Go to the Seashore; or Messianism and Mystical Kingship in Mexico, 1800–1821,” in The Independence of Mexico and the Creation of the New Nation, edited by Jaime E. Rodríguez 0. (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center and the Mexico/Chicano Program, University of California, Irvine, 1989), 109–28.

11. For a fuller discussion of this approach, see William B. Taylor, “Between Global Process and Local Knowledge: An Inquiry into Early Latin American Social History,” in Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History, edited by Olivier Zunz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 115–90.