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The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio López Láza...
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 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 more than 130 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...
The Black Middle
The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
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...
