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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

  • Categories: Art

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and raze...

Performing Piety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Performing Piety

“’Piety is not something you talk about, it is something you do,’ writes Elaine Peña towards the beginning of this excellent book—itself a wonderful doing. Peña participates actively as an engaged scholar. This is necessary reading for scholars of religion, performance studies, Latino/a Studies, and popular culture.” —Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas “Peña provides a major contribution to our understanding of sacred space, of the world of contemporary Mexican migrants, and of the vibrant ways in which Catholics honor the Virgin of Guadalupe. This is an important book about a transnational devotion, a book that...

México: 500 años
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 346
No Mere Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

No Mere Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-01
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family—a mother, three daughters, and a granddaughter—from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520 until the 1580s. Each was once married and when widowed chose not to remarry. Their stories illustrate the constraints placed upon them both as women and as widows by the religious, secular, and legal cultures of the time and how each refused to be bound by those constraints. Money, influence, knowledge, and connections all come into play as the widows maneuver to hold onto property. Each of their stories illustrates an aspect of Spanish life in the New World that has heretofore been largely overlooked.

Servus Domini Cordis - Pauperibus serviendo Fidemque tuendo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 125

Servus Domini Cordis - Pauperibus serviendo Fidemque tuendo

Ensayos en honor de S. E. R. Monseñor Dr. Jean Laffitte, Prelado de la Orden de Malta, en ocasión del primer lustro de su ministerio IV. VII. MMXV- IV. VII. MMXX

Educación, familia y vida cotidiana en México virreinal
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 211

Educación, familia y vida cotidiana en México virreinal

México,Vida social y costumbres, Historia, Siglo XVI, Siglo XVII, Siglo XVIII, Siglo XIX, 1535-1821, Educación, Civilización

La perdida relación de la Nueva España y su conquista de Juan Cano
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 277

La perdida relación de la Nueva España y su conquista de Juan Cano

El presente libro realiza un recorrido crítico y detectivesco por las fuentes españolas y nahuas de la conquista, que muestra como se entrecruzaron los ideales indigenistas de Zorita con el odio contra Cortés de Juan Cano y sus intentos judiciales para reivindicarse como marido de la legítima heredera del poder y los bienes de Moctezuma.

Espacio público y reconstrucción de ciudadanía
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 500

Espacio público y reconstrucción de ciudadanía

Pensar la ciudad desde el marco conceptual del espacio público y redefinir el concepto de espacio público desde nuestras ciudades, tal es la propuesta del libro. Ello obliga a los autores aquí reunidos a aventurarse simultáneamente en el terreno de las precisiones teóricas y en el de los análisis de casos, a trabajar con conceptos y con actores, con espacios imaginarios y con espacios territorialmente delimitados. A mostrar, a través de diversas experiencias urbanas (los condominios, los comités vecinales, el diseño urbano, las ONG citadinas, los servicios de salud) cómo transcurre la vida pública en las megaciudades contemporáneas; y cómo en el encuentro en esos espacios, ciudadanos, autoridades, expertos, y movimientos sociales pugnan por redefinir, en cada caso, los límites entre lo público y lo privado.