This volume improves scholarly accessibility to the Exposición to the Cortes de Cádiz made on November 20, 1812, by Pedro Bautista Pino, the deputy from New Mexico. The transcription is from the official publication by the Estado General de Cádiz in the same year. Editor Jesús Paniagua Pérez expands attribution of the authorship of the exposition by Pino to include Juan López Cancelada, a peninsular merchant in New Spain turned political newspaper publisher. He collaborated with Pino in order to express his own views to the Cortes. Paniagua includes four additional documents by Cancelada, two by Pino, and one by the Comisión Ultramarina, which contextualize the collaboration. Paniagua’s introduction (pp. 19 – 144) reconstructs the political biographies of the two protagonist-authors within the histories of New Mexico and the Cortes de Cádiz.
The effect is to centralize Cancelada in his relationship with his collaborator, Pino. Cancelada claimed true authorship of...
