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  • Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages

    by William B. Taylor ...
    This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Colonial Latin America

    A Documentary History

    Edited by Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, Sandra Lauderdale Graham ...
    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Fugitive Freedom

    The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

    by William B. Taylor ...
    The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial MexicoCut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico

    Three Texts in Context

    by William B. Taylor ...
    Series series Religions of the Americas Series
    Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. During the second half of the eighteenth century, Spain’s Bourbon dynasty sought to tighten its control over New World colonies, reform imperial institutions, and change the role of the church and religion in colonial life. As a result, miracles ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Shrines and Miraculous Images

    Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma

    by William B. Taylor ...
    Series series Religions of the Americas Series
    The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history than Guadalupe and Marian devotion. In this book a distinguished historian brings together his new and recent essays on previously unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Reliving the Past

    The Worlds of Social History

    by Olivier Zunz, Charles Tilly, David William Cohen, David William Cohen, William B. Taylor, William T. Rowe ...
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need for a social history ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Colonial Spanish America

    A Documentary History

    by Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Theater of a Thousand Wonders

    A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain

    by William B. Taylor ...
    Series Book 103 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Chelsey's Big Dream

    by Taylor B. Williams ...
    Dreams do come true. Have you started dreaming yet? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Black Christ of Esquipulas

    Religion and Identity in Guatemala

    by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez ...
    On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New Mexico to Panama. Beyond being a site of popular devotion, however, the Black Christ of Esquipulas was ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches

    Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    by Carole A. Myscofski ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities ... Read more

    $26.99 USD