... chapter Miller decries the conventional academic view of slavery as an institution, indicating that such a position freezes views of slavery across time and space and thereby denies any proper appreciation of history as a complex and dynamic process. He distinguishes between slavery, defined as an...

... perception of native peoples by Spaniards, Cortés as the main driving force of the conquest, and finally the justification of the conquest on religious grounds. The transformation of his- tory acquires a new dimension through the transformation of space. “The Conquest of Mexico and the Representation...

... any confusion, but she also elucidates the text when there are difficulties in understanding it due to factors such as spaces, abbreviations, or illegibility. It is clear that the main focus of the work is the retranscription of the wills. It is unfortunate, however, that no attempt is made...

...Deborah Kanter Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe . By Peña Elaine A. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 219 pp. Paper $24.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book...

...Styliane Philippou Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space . By Wagner Logan , Box Hal , and Morehead Susan Kline . Roger Fullington Series in Architecture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps...

...Sabine Hyland Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero . By Nair Stella . Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Photographs. Plates...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 . By Ramírez Cristina Devereaux . Foreword by Royster Jacqueline Jones . Translations by Pouwels Joel Bollinger and Devereaux Neil J. . Tucson...

...Elizabeth Graham Space, transfiguration, and Maya cultural production tie the volume together, but each chapter is distinctive. The first two chapters discuss the Franciscan strategy of constructing churches in Maya sacred precincts and the policy of concentrating people in towns reconfigured to...

...Styliane Philippou Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba: Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828 . By Niell Paul . Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Eileen Suárez Findlay Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. By teresita martínez-vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustration. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 235 pp. Cloth, $32.50. Paper...

...Lessie Jo Frazier; Deborah Cohen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Defining the Space of Mexico ’68: Heroic Masculinity in the Prison and “Women” in the Streets Lessie Jo Frazier and Deborah Cohen Defining the Space of the Movement In 2001 we attended a Mexico City conference...

...Andrew Konove Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Sandra C. Mendiola García . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 271 pp. Paper , $30.00...

...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...

...Robert L. Smale Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life . By Canessa Andrew . Narrating Native Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Photographs. Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 325 pp. Paper...

...Julio Djenderedjian Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Roots of Revolution: Frontier Settlement Policy and the Emergence of New Spaces of Power in the Río de la Plata Borderlands, 1777 – 1810 Julio Djenderedjian In the last years before the independence revolutions...

...Jesús F. de la Teja Contested Spaces is not without its problems. For instance, Mandrini's comparison of the 1758 Comanche-Norteño attack on the isolated Franciscan mission of San Saba in Texas with the Pampas Indian attack on the Buenos Aires area in 1740 is an overreach. And the fact that...

...Hendrik Kraay A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and the Alternative Spaces of Blackness. By rachel e. harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 251 pp. Cloth, $39.95. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.2-06 Book Reviews R 5...

... rural 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...

...Jordana Dym; Karl Offen Historical maps deserve a place in the college classroom as primary sources. Since the 1980s, scholarship has shown how maps can be analyzed and interpreted to reveal something not only about the peoples, spaces, and times they portray but also about the societies that...

... condition as a woman, mother, and mulatta, her ignorance, and other factors deprived her of any possibility of entering the space of the criminal subject. Instead, the figure of Luisa oscillated between monster and madwoman in the discourses of the time. Around the mid-twentieth century her discursive...