... honor and even of public security . . . [such initiatives] show to be true a fact of great importance—that the government of Brazil has enough force to carry out its searches and to execute effectively its laws. 1 The minister’s use of the words public security raise several questions. Did...

...Pablo Yankelevich [email protected] Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965 . By Larisa L. Veloz . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 294 pp. Paper, $29.95...

...Robert H. Fuson Lodestone and Evening Star. The Epic Voyages of Discovery, 1493 B.C.-1896 A.D . By Cameron Ian . New York , 1965 . E. P. Dutton & Company . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 288 . $6.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967...

.... In criminal cases, indigenous, casta, and even creole witnesses and suspects required interpreters to translate their statements. This article builds on earlier research into indigenous-language documentation but shifts its emphasis to mundane genres produced by non-Mayas, demonstrating that the linguistic...

... executions of Catholics had allowed detractors and even sympathetic observers to question the depth of civic values in Mexico. The article shows how authorities deliberately presented the hearing as the concrete realization of Calles's claim that his administration had established institutions that embodied...

... intermediaries between popular subjects and the imperial state. Moral indebtedness was one racialized means by which various constituencies sought to craft or accommodate (in the case of authorities) a more inclusive political project that did not contradict the basis of imperial rule—even though it did alter...

... contributed to the vitality of the city and its Indian communities, migrating and settling in Zacatecas in large numbers even during periods of mining declines. Within these communities, episodes of high male absenteeism often left Indian women in charge of their households. As primary caretakers, they cared...

... spirituality suppressed activities there after 1745 because they saw the devotion as excessively Indian and Baroque. The shrine has served as a barometer of eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms even though its story has not been fully told. This article explores the politics of patronage in the years after...

... surveyed the valley defined the population as criollo, that is, non-indigenous. The article demonstrates that, even though a certain creolization process did take place among the Calchaquí people during the nineteenth century, labeling them as criollos was a discursive operation manipulated by academic...

..., making the border even more permeable to Indigenous claims to territoriality and cross-border interactions. 54. Francisco Requena to Teodósio Constantino de Chermont, Ega, 28 Oct. 1783, AHU, RN, caixa 7, doc. 304. 55. Francisco Requena to Antonio Valdés, Ega, 14 Mar. and 14 Aug. 1789, AGI...

... and urban spaces, the labor of childrearing (including wet nursing and fosterage) and the labor of children (as servants and criados ) was mobilized across dense social networks. Even as the circulation of this labor linked disparate social groups, it simultaneously differentiated them, materially...

...Paul K. Eiss Abstract General Salvador Alvarado earned renown as a visionary leader during and after his time as governor of Yucatán during the Constitutionalist revolution (1915–18), even contemplating a presidential run before his life was ended by an assassin's bullet. In ensuing decades...

... portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot opposition or even to eliminate the poor. This article analyzes the epistemological contests that surfaced in response...

... and prosecuting a modern crime and thus to explore how notions of policing, private property, space, honor, and even decency influenced how people secured and used electricity. Using 63 cases tried before the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal (Federal District Higher Court) and newspaper...

... racialized term that can be perceived as pejorative even in the present, is therefore an especially evocative example of how this conceptual combination was visually rendered to access elements of white identity. Using fine art media coverage, this article highlights the entangled relationship between memory...

...Jane E. Mangan Abstract This article analyzes objects and abodes to further the understanding of lived experience in colonial Andean cities. It builds on existing scholarship on women's dress by analyzing household objects and even domestic structures themselves. Seeking to elaborate on Indigenous...

... for the Spaniard outside (even sometimes inside) the southwestern province of Andalusia as it is for the foreigner. Indeed, the basic musical terms flamenco and cante flamenco did not enter the official Spanish dictionary until the edition of 1925; hondo not until 1936. In 1961, Webster officially introduced...

... from now more different. That is as far as we can go with any assurance. We can not even be sure of the direction of change which might permit some prediction of the degree or type of survival, for our ideas are based really upon the first forms of the Industrial Revolution with its emphasis upon...