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A Land Between Waters
Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants. A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in Me...
How to Make a New Spain
"As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To address issues of wealth, it will be necessary to study the kinds of coin and other media of exchange that were in use in sixteenth-century Mexico City. The people compiling the probate inventories that form the basis of this study measured and recorded the value of each item in material terms: the amount of gold that would be necessary to purchase a person's belongings. They translated each decedent's net worth into coin in official documents, with the intent of communicating and sending the value of the decedent's belongings to his or her family in Spain. Calculating the value of a decedent's belongings as gold also helped the church and the Spanish crown collect some revenue from a person's estate, through donations to the church and taxes to the king"--
Colonial Legacies
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook articles are divided into seven parts. Part I, Archaeology of the Aztecs, introduces the Aztecs, as well as Aztec studies today, including the recent practice of archaeology, ethnohistory, museum studies, and conservation. The articles in Part II, Historical ...
Género, ritual y desarrollo sostenido en comunidades rurales de Tlaxcala
En el municipio de Santa María Ntivitas, Tlaxcala, se conservan ancestrales tradiciones como herencia de los pueblos que habitaron en la región desde época prehispánica. Aquí se encuentran las zonas arqueológicas de Cacaxtla y Xochitecatl, en esta última se desarrolló un centro religioso femenino de gran importancia evidenciado por los hallazgos arqueológicos de gran cantidad de figurillas de diosas, mujeres, niños, ancianos, jóvenes y sacerdotisas. El pasado prehispánico se une al presente a través de las mujeres de San Rafael Tenanyecac, San Miguel Xochitecatitla, Santiago Michac, San Miguel del Milagro, San José Atoyatenco, San Bernabé Capula y Guadalupe Victoria, y otras c...
Librerías infantiles
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