...Richard L. Garner The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. By edith boorstein couturier. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. x, 224 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $22.95. 2005 by Duke...

...Alejandra Osorio 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The King in Lima: Simulacra, Ritual, and Rule in Seventeenth-Century Peru Alejandra Osorio The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true...

...Nara Milanich Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima . By bianca premo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 350 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper $24.95...

...David J. Robinson Spanish King of the Incas: The Epic Life of Pedro Bohorques . By ana maría lorandi. Translated by anna de león. Foreword by peter klarén. Illuminations: Studies in Cultural Foundations of the Americas. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Map. Notes...

...Robert L. Paquette The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. By maría elena díaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii,440 pp. Cloth...

...John S. Leiby Building the King's Highway: Labor, Society, and Family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757-1804. By bruce a. castleman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. Illustration. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 163 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Duke University Press 2006...

... suggested that the king, far beyond only providing justice to his subjects, was responsible primarily for his subjects' material well-being and the economic development of the various regions under his mandate. To demonstrate this thesis, the author traces the policymaking processes of reform. Eissa...

... hundred years of imperial rule. Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 and the abduction of the king caused a major shock to this system of redistribution. The implosion of Spanish rule led to conflict over revenues and resources among constituent parts of the empire. The ensuing search for a legitimate...

...Aaron Ansell Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil . By King Lindsey . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Photographs. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 157 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 When tragedy...

... empire. This work, which originally appeared in German in 2009, offers an insightful historical sociology of knowledge. According to Brendecke, the Spanish kings strove to gather the full information ( entera noticia ) about their newfound empire, spurred by Francis Bacon's dictum that “scientia potestas...

... common distinction between slave societies and societies with slaves—a distinction that privileges quantitative approaches and that considers slavery mainly from the point of view of property and labor—to see how the king and his regents used slavery as a means of governance. Even if Quito was not a...

...Alanna Ossa The Ancient Maya Marketplace: The Archaeology of Transient Space . Edited by King Eleanor M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. x, 325 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

... happened that a group of Africans who were once held as slaves by their Miskitu rescuers managed, within two generations, to rise to be kings of the Miskitus and eventually become players in the international politics of the region. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 A fairly long...

... invaded the Iberian Peninsula, the Spanish monarchy entered into a transfor- mation unlike any other it had experienced since it claimed possession of the Americas. The replacement of King Fernando VII on the throne by Napoleon’s brother José in 1808 started a crisis of sovereignty felt from Madrid...

... the touchstone for discussing the sale of appointments. For example, the councillor of Castile, Cristóbal de Moscoso y Córdoba, even titled his mid-seventeenth-century treatise the “Discourse . . . on Whether It is Licit for Kings to Sell Offices . . . and What Saint Thomas Felt about This Issue.” 25...

... Negras are still an enigma. Sarah Jackson starts with those whom we know from their roles while living. To do this, she takes the epigraphic turn, isolating the titles of five types of courtiers—liege lords—who stand beside Maya kings. They appear over several hundred years, the titles appearing...

..., in exchange for prestige, status, and positions; the elector of Brandenburg and the king of Denmark were recipients of especially strategic importance. The elector made him stadhouder of Cleves, Mark, and Ravensberg in 1647, and prince in 1653. The list and quality of presents that the elector got...

... American elites and the royal officials sent to the Indies to implement the crown's reformist agenda. One of the most significant contributions of this study is its emphasis on the scope, aims, and accomplishments of the first two Bourbon kings. Although typically the first phases of the Bourbon...

... years later in Andrés Muriel's French translation of William Coxe's history of the Bourbon dynasty (the afrancesado Spanish cleric inserted it into chapter 3 of volume 6). Dated 1783 (but without month or day) from Madrid and addressed to the king, the memorial expressed apprehension about the...