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Indigenous Autocracy
When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth—though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining how an Indigenous person held state-level power in Mexico during the thirty-five-year dictatorship that preceded the Mexican Revolution (the Porfiriato), and the apogee of scientific racism across Latin America. Although he was one of few recognizably Indigenous persons in office, Próspero Cahuantzi of Tlaxcala kept his position (1885–1911) l...
Fueling Mexico
Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.
Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs
Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs: A New Path in Latin America From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century synthesizes new research on various phenomena related to religions and beliefs in Latin America. The contributors provide comprehensive analytical interpretations of Latin American spheres of religious ideas and worldviews and show that they are a key element to understanding the history of the region. Overall, this book gives an account of the whole spectrum of religious phenomena in Latin American societies, providing a “global” interpretation that will contribute to the study of political, economic, and cultural modernities in Latin America.
La mirada del otro en la literatura hispánica
Este conjunto de trabajos examina la representación del otro en distintas expresiones de la Literatura Hispánica: novela, teatro, memoria, zarzuela, relato de viajes, entre otras. Asimismo, se sigue una perspectiva diacrónica que abarca desde la literatura del Siglo de Oro español hasta la literatura latinoamericana más actual.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940
"Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long nineteenth century. This traditional view, writes Margaret Chowning, cannot account for the continued power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, which has withstood extensive and sustained political opposition for over a century. How, then, must the scholarly consensus change to better reflect Mexico's history? In this book, Chowning shows that the church repeatedly emerged as a political player, even when liberals won elections, primarily because of the overlooked importance of women in politics. Catholic women kept the church alive through the wa...
Science, Religion and Nationalism
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of “religion” are seldom challenged. This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of “religion” played in the construction o...
La revolución política
La Revolución Política. Entre autonomías e independencias en Hispanoamérica" es una obra que, a partir de una reflexión colectiva, recoge los más recientes avances de algunos de los más relevantes especialistas en el estudio de las independencias hispanoamericanas. El conjunto de estos textos presenta un hilo conductor a través de la influencia y trascendencia de los trabajos de Jaime E. Rodríguez en el propio itinerario académico de los autores y autoras que participan en este volumen. Se pretende con ello que el libro sea –a su vez– un homenaje a la obra y trayectoria de quien es uno de los historiadores más relevantes sobre el periodo de la desintegración de la monarquía ...
Un virtuoso entre los hijos del diablo
En el escenario de la consumación de la independencia de México, en septiembre de 1821, Yucatán se ha enaltecido por su transición en este proceso sin derramar ninguna gota de sangre en una época de cambios vertiginosos que presentaron desafíos y afectaron, de manera considerable, a los individuos en la Nueva España. Entre los combates ideológicos por el origen de la nación y su patrística, se ha encontrado en José Matías Quintana, padre de Andrés Quintana Roo, al «insurgente» de papel por su connotada participación como escritor religioso, así como por su intervención como un prolífico escritor y orador en la Cámara de Diputados del Congreso de la Unión, actividad polí...
