...<italic>Los Sonoras</italic> and the Iberian Invasion of Northwestern Mexico ...

...Iberian Masculinities ...

... Chapter 2 examines the origins of a political language of “race” through the image of a frayed or strained fabric that metaphorically expresses a dangerous hidden defect in a population. This meaning, which emerged at the Iberian threshold between the medieval and the early modern periods, would...

... participations to Hispanic and indigenous peoples, while limiting the rights of men of African origins as slavery expanded in Cuba. That charter shaped political visions and debates in the Iberian world—Spain, Portugal, and their Americas—into the nineteenth century even as military men took the lead in founding...

... and indigenous peoples, while limiting the rights of men of African origins as slavery expanded in Cuba. That charter shaped political visions and debates in the Iberian world—Spain, Portugal, and their Americas—into the nineteenth century even as military men took the lead in founding and ruling national states...

... as gold waned, sugar revived, and Britain escorted the Portuguese monarchy to Rio in the face of Napoleon’s Iberian invasion. Brazil’s wealth funded Britain years of war. When the king returned to Lisbon, his son Dom Pedro in 1822 proclaimed a Brazilian monarchy tied to Britain and sustained by sugar...

... power on the Iberian Peninsula. In the colonies, the early bid for power by creoles and mestizos received the support of urban plebeian sectors, though it generated little rural Indian allegiance and was quickly repudiated by Spanish civil and military authorities. This anonymous document, titled...

... in the cities of coastal Brazil to build and maintain churches, with a spectrum of political, economic, and social functions. Black brotherhood, here, challenges the idea that urban modernity and contemporary city geography were colonial by-products—images of social hygiene imposed from above by Iberian...

... This chapter explores John Marrant’s early childhood and reconstructs the religious worlds he encountered in New York City; St. Augustine, Florida; and Savannah, Georgia. In each urban center, Black communities nurtured rich Africana religious cultures. In New York, Afro-Iberian fraternal...

... monarch should grant them similar standing. Drawing on Andean and Iberian references, they proclaimed a model for the proper ties of reciprocity between an imperial state and its loyal vassals, and smoothed over the differences between the former Andean overlord and the new Spanish one. The lords made...

.... The villancico (Christmas carol) presented here—which has its roots in early modern Iberian popular song—shows the vitality, evolution, and reach of mission musical forms. It was performed in one of the communities in the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) that were established...

... shaped political visions and debates in the Iberian world—Spain, Portugal, and their Americas—into the nineteenth century even as military men took the lead in founding and ruling national states. Ironically, a charter designed to hold an empire together in trying times proved most influential, shaping...

... modernity and contemporary city geography were colonial by-products—images of social hygiene imposed from above by Iberian or French planners. This chapter features Black brotherhoods’ role in urban expansion and resists dominant white narratives of the contemporary city’s formation. It offers Black...

... to special benefits and privileges, arguing that they had enjoyed favor under the Inka and that the Spanish monarch should grant them similar standing. Drawing on Andean and Iberian references, they proclaimed a model for the proper ties of reciprocity between an imperial state and its loyal vassals...

... by European and to a lesser degree anonymous indigenous musicians and performed by local choirs. This musical culture persisted at the local level for centuries and enjoyed a renaissance starting in the 1990s. The villancico (Christmas carol) presented here—which has its roots in early modern Iberian...

... in response to the political crisis in Spain. The abdication of King Carlos IV and then his son Fernando VII under pressure from Napoleon had allowed French forces to seize power on the Iberian Peninsula. In the colonies, the early bid for power by creoles and mestizos received the support of urban plebeian...