...Mark W. Lentz [email protected] Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation . By Nicole von Germeten . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 268 pp. Paper...

...Pablo F. Gómez This book, in summary, is an examination of the strategies used by a small sample of men and women navigating sexuality in the Spanish courts in Cartagena de Indias. Von Germeten succeeds in presenting the complexity of these few cases to show how women in Cartagena de Indias...

...Winthrop Wright Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans . By Von Germeten Nicole . Foreword by Angell Stephen W. and Pinn Anthony B. . The History of African-American Religions . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2006 . Map...

... to both specialists and undergraduate students in upper-level colonial Mexican and Latin American courses. Germeten has meticulously mined sources at the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, in particular the Libros de Reos , which record the city's criminal cases from the 1780s...

...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico . By Nicole von Germeten . Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 235 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Many really...

...Ronald J. Morgan Treatise on Slavery: Selections from “De instauranda Aethiopum salute .” By Sandoval Alonso De S.J. Edited, Translated, and with an introduction by von Germeten Nicole . Indianapolis : Hackett , 2008 . Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxxii...

... and Nicole von Germeten to identify a vibrant and contentious collectivity of queers. Among the greatest contributions of the volume is the deep exploration of women's sexuality, based in astonishing archival research and astute interpretation. Unsurprisingly, colonial inhabitants incorporated Catholic...

...Nicole von Germeten Passing to América: Antonio (Née María) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire . By Thomas A. Abercrombie University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary...

...Nicole von Germeten Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World . Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo . New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2021 . Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . vii, 214 pp...

...Nicole von Germeten People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro . By de Carvalho Soares Mariza . Translated by Metz Jerry D. . Latin America in Translation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix...

...Nicole von Germeten Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain . By Zeb Tortorici . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 327 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

...Nicole von Germeten Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge . Edited by Pete Sigal , Zeb Tortorici , and Neil L. Whitehead Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Index. ix , 270 pp. Paper, $26.95 . Copyright ©...

...Nicole von Germeten The Underground World of Secret Jews and Africans: Two Tales of Sex, Magic, and Survival in Colonial Cartagena and Mexico City . By Jonathan Schorsch . Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers , 2021 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii...

...Nicole von Germeten Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora . Edited by Jerome C. Branche . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Index. vii, 301 pp. Paper, $39.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University...

... to in Eire’s piece. Indeed, a number of the authors describe colonial religion as an integrative force, where the boundaries between “high” and “low,” “elite” and “popular,” or “orthodox” and “heterodox” were permeable, if not porous. Nicole von Germeten and Javier Villa-Flores, for example, both demonstrate...

... their predecessors” (p. 57). Fisher underscores that blacks were part of neither world, confronting extreme ostracism. Records from the eighteenth century reveal some agency for blacks with modest structural change as an outcome. Nicole von Germeten notes that little segregation between blacks and Spaniards...

... history, which, as Paul Ramírez states, are present not only in our teaching but in our research. In chapter 3, Nicole von Germeten focuses on a regionalism that goes beyond economic specificities and takes into consideration racial hierarchies, social divides, and spiritual conceptions of space. The last...

... ; Megged, “Magic, Popular Medicine and Gender”; Navarrete, Historia social del negro ; Lewis, Hall of Mirrors , esp. 153–66; Bristol, Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches ; Bristol and Restall, “Potions and Perils”; Maya Restrepo, “Paula de Eguiluz”; Germeten, Violent Delights ; Díaz Burgos, Tráfico...

... used these spaces to forge a sense of identity too. Building on the work of Nicole von Germeten, Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva offers a nuanced understanding of Puebla's “African-descended elite,” a topic that has been rarely explored but certainly deserves further attention (p. 385). The chapters...

... resistencia al orden republicano: Jerarquías sociales, prensa y sistema judicial durante el siglo XIX , by Pablo Whipple, 160 Germeten, Nicole von, Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias , 152 Gillingham, Paul, and Benjamin T. Smith, eds., Dictablanda...