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The Conquest All Over Again
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native people in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. This title addresses key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest.
In the Shadow of Cortés
Five hundred years ago, the army of conquest led by Hernan Cortés marched hundreds of miles across a rugged swath of land from Veracruz on the Mexican Caribbean to the capital city of the Aztecs, now Mexico City. This journey was the catalyst for profound cultural and political change in Mesoamerica. Today, many Mexicans view the Ruta de Cortés as a symbol of an event that forever changed the course of their history. But few U.S. Americans understand how the conquest still affects Mexicans’ national identity and their relationship with the United States. Following the route of Hernán Cortés, In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of contact between ...
Historias paralelas
Se reúne las ponencias presentadas en este encuentro realizado en la PUCP, agosto del 2003. Los artículos esbozan una aproximación a una historia comparada entre Perú y México, países cuyos territorios albergaron a dos de las más altas culturas de la antigüedad americana y que fueron sede de los virreinatos fundados en el Nuevo Mundo durante el s. XVI.
Racism and Discourse in Latin America
Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.
Jesuits and Race
"Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020 examines the role the Society of Jesus played in shaping Western understandings about race and explores the impact the Order had on the lives and societies of non-European peoples throughout history. Jesuits provide an unusual, if not unique, lens through which to view the topic of race given the global nature of the Society of Jesus and the priests' interest in humanity, salvation, conversion, science, and nature. Interactions, discussions, and debates occured at the loftiest of intellectual levels and at the most intimate of local settings, both offering a fascinating portal to examine oscillating attitudes about race....
The Conquest of Mexico
The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and multiculturalism. Writing from a range of perspe...
La escritura de la historia prehispánica en Colombia
A través del análisis de la obra de Ernesto Restrepo Tirado, esta investigación se enfoca en entender cómo se escribió la historia prehispánica en Colombia a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Este texto examina el contexto intelectual en el que Restrepo Tirado produjo su obra historiográfica, y para ello se determinó su itinerario biográfico, se describió y reflexionó acerca del proceso de elaboración de sus obras y se analizó su representación sobre los grupos prehispánicos colombianos y su relación con el debate del momento sobre “raza”, “civilización” y “barbarie”. Esta es la primera investigación que aborda con profundidad a este autor, su obra y el momento de su escritura, cuando en diferentes países de América Latina se planteó la necesidad de dar un peso temporal a la historia nacional mediante el reconocimiento de la historia prehispánica, para lo cual en el desarrollo del ejercicio histórico se comenzaron a usar las antigüedades como fuentes arqueológicas, práctica que terminó dando pie a la formalización de la antropología y la arqueología como campos científicos.
En busca del alma nacional
La historia narrada en este libro da cuenta de la persecución del anhelo de Alfonso Reyes donde “procuraría interpretar y extraer la moraleja de nuestra terrible fábula histórica: buscar el pulso de la patria[…]; descubrir la misión del hombre mexicano en la tierra, interrogando pertinazmente a todos los fantasmas y las piedras de nuestras tumbas y monumentos”.
