...Michele Reid-Vazquez “Damned Notions of Liberty”: Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640–1769 . By Proctor Frank T. III . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 282 pp. Paper...

... (marginalized), focused on need-based definitions of social exclusion and thus incongruously erased ethnic diversity while celebrating Indigenous forms of healing. Indeed, linking notions of poverty to health programs redefined poverty in the late twentieth century as an economically preventable ailment. More...

... of neighborhood health movements, the article explores how grassroots movements came to articulate a notion of a right to health that incorporated the right to shape the city and the right to democratic participation while under military rule. As frustration with a lack of sanitary infrastructure and poor-quality...

... at this question from the standpoint of Douglass North’s work on institutions and particularly, Spanish fiscal institutions in the Americas. The result is an effective critique of the notion of early modern Spain as a centralized monarchy. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 To a disinterested...

... notions of legal custom had two temporal trajectories, one harkening back to a “time immemorial,” the other pointing to repeated community practice. In the late eighteenth century, indigenous litigants and legal officials added another temporal dimension to native custom. This version of custom contained...

... notions of merit. Between 1650 and 1755, enlightened thinking challenged these precepts. The idea that corruption entailed violating royal laws in office gained strength. Performance mattered more, and accepting money for appointments instead of considering traditional merit was part of a utilitarian...

... on and was instrumental to racial hierarchy and discrimination against Chinese. As leaders of anti-Chinese committees, chineras , pelonas , voters in newspaper contests, and Independence Day Queens, Sonoran women acted both within and against evolving notions of ideal Mexican womanhood, an ideal that was gendered...

... 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...

... the transformations of the Spanish monarchy at this unique juncture. Using a microhistorical lens, this essay contextualizes Gonzales, the system of justice, and the intervening officials in the milieu of the War of Spanish Independence to illuminate significant changes to the notions of freedom and loyalty in Spain...

... dismissing men's aggressive sexuality. By illustrating the ways in which physiological development worked alongside legal cultures, class expectations, and heteronormative gender norms to create a culture of impunity around sexual assault, this article suggests that modern notions of acceptable...

... public policy debates were carried out with ramifications that extended to rival notions of how society should be properly organized. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 The Complex Dynamics of Indigenous Education in Mid-Twentieth-Century: Ecuador as a Theater...

..., and his fieldwork in Mexico. It also shows how Lewis and others reformulated the notion in response to intense public controversies in Mexico and Puerto Rico; the vehement U.S. discussions surrounding the War on Poverty and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the Negro family, and larger events...

... the receding religious memory in print. The article highlights the first-person autopsy regime that determined the work's methodology, uncovers the assumptions that underlay Ramírez Aparicio's conception of inevitable historical change, and showcases how the notion of national material patrimony, paired...

... their communities’ interests. The archival traces of this Andean notariate oblige us to rethink our notion of the “lettered city” as an urban phenomenon centered exclusively on elite Spaniards. 74 Brokaw, “ Khipu Numeracy and Alphabetic Literacy in the Andes: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y...

... explores how chronological age mediated the relationship between the colonial state and Andeans by creating the administrative status of tributary. Andeans adjusted their precolonial notions of aging to the concept of chronological age, which they associated with the tribute regime. During the government...

... racialized notions of social and political upheaval. This article therefore demonstrates how these views challenged orthodox interpretations of social revolution while exposing the obstacles to building internationalist solidarity among laboring classes in postimperial and postcolonial societies. kevana...

.... Analyzing textbooks, periodicals, and oral histories, I argue that Cayambe's teachers pursued notions of national inclusion that fused citizenship rights with socialist ideals and practices of Indigenous autonomy. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 In a 1936...

... notions of authenticity. Knowledge production, she asserts, is necessarily “relational and historically contingent,” because Indigenous and European actors are unavoidably “entangled” (pp. 232, 235). As she notes, claims to an irreducible “Indigeneity” are in tension with bids for political equality under...

.... Paradoxically, the Indian notion of la república was worlds apart from any liberal or enlightened understanding of republicanism and had its roots in the colonial division between la república de los indios and la república de los españoles. Thus, political confrontation took place within the framework...

... and political transformations of these years came together to produce a peculiar political culture where the notion of republicanism is central. Thus, rather than stress traditional references such as the “coffee aristocracy” or “coffee bourgeoisie,” the author fittingly moves his emphasis toward the political...