scholarly journals Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration.

1916 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 816
Author(s):  
Herbert Eugene Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial

Out of Tlatelolco’s Ruins: Patronage, Devotion, and Natural Disaster at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, 1745–1781

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ramírez ◽  
William B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bourbon Reforms ◽  
Disease Epidemics ◽  
The City

Abstract Colonial inhabitants of Mexico City were accustomed to coping with natural disasters, including disease epidemics, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, which menaced rich and poor alike and stirred fervent devotion to miraculous images and their shrines. This article revisits the late colonial history of the shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, an image preserved miraculously on an adobe wall in the Indian quarter of Santiago Tlatelolco. The assumption has been that archiepiscopal authorities aiming to deflect public worship toward a more austere, interior 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 the shrine’s closure and in the decades prior to the arrival on the scene of a new Spanish patron in 1776, revealing that Indian caretakers kept the faith well beyond the official intervention, with some help from well-placed Spanish devotees and officials. The efforts of the new patron, a Spanish tailor from the city center, to renovate the building and image and secure the necessary permissions and privileges helped transform the site into one of the most famous in the capital. Attention to earlier patterns of patronage and to the social response to a series of tremors that coincided with his promotional efforts helps to explain why a devotion so carefully managed for enlightened audiences was nevertheless cut from old cloth.

Setting the Table

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Ness
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Spanish Florida ◽  
Spanish Atlantic ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
La Florida

Setting the Table: Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucía and La Florida explores issues of cultural exchange and identity among eighteenth-century Spaniards and Spanish Americans via the archaeological remains and documentary evidence form Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and St. Augustine, Florida. These lines of evidence indicate that there were substantial and similar changes to dining practices on both sides of the Atlantic almost simultaneously. As a result, this book takes the stance that early modern individuals from Spain and Spanish America were developing and expressing a distinct Spanish-Atlantic identity that was neither wholly Spanish nor wholly Spanish-American but rather combined new ideas and goods from an increasingly global network while also maintaining some Spanish traditions. Although archaeologists have researched Spanish colonial sites in Florida and the Caribbean for decades, only two projects have adopted a trans-Atlantic perspective, and this work is the first to use this approach with eighteenth-century sites. Additionally, it is the first book to conduct a detailed study of Spanish ceramic vessel forms and their possible uses and meanings for the users. As a result, this project sheds new light on the Spanish Atlantic and calls into question several existing interpretations of life in Spanish Florida as well as foodways in both St. Augustine and Spain.

La virgen de Cancuc

Tlalocan ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noemí Quezada
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Political Principles

In her introduction, the author notes that the document published refers to the Indian uprisings in Chiapas in the eighteenth century. In the Tzeltal rebellions of 1712 and 1727, the Indians replaced the conquerors' Virgin of Patronage with the Indian Virgin of Cancuc as a symbol unifying them against the Spaniards. The movement was crushed in six months. In 1727, another rebellion was organized under the same Virgin of Cancuc, but it was also put down. The document, dated 1743, is evidence that the same problems continued, for in it is noted that prints of the Virgin of Cancuc had been distributed in Chiapas and Tabasco. A text at the foot of the image, written in French and Dutch, refers to the political principles of the Indians in 1712 and 1727. The authorities urge that the prints be confiscated, and denounced the participation of foreign countries in the movement that is aimed at undermining Spanish colonial power.

scholarly journals Colonial Spain in Africa: Building a Shared History from Memories of the Spanish Protectorate and Spanish Guinea

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e017
Author(s):  
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
African History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Shared History

This article compares Spanish, Riffian and Equatorial Guinean memories to address Hispano-African history and understand their colonial experiences. Examining Africans’ voices in the 21st century from Postcolonial and Decolonial perspectives allows us to uncover Spanish colonial rhetoric about Moroccans and Equatorial Guineans and the racialised inequalities they had to face during the Spanish settlement. This approach shows the urgency of conciliating different versions and promoting a decoloniality process for Spain: the colonial past must be rebuilt for all and different sociocultural encounters must be rewritten to include expressly African voices. The final aim is to offer a contested version of Spanish colonial history in 20th century Africa, promoting a more shared social colonial history.

Natives and Newcomers

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-68
Author(s):  
Brooks Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Louisiana Purchase ◽  
Lead Mining

Chapter 2 follows the earliest history of human activity in the Ozark uplift, from the emergence of the Osages as the overlords of the region to the resettlement of the Cherokees and other “immigrant Indians” from east of the Mississippi and their eventual removal in the 1820s and 1830s. This chapter also explores the arrival of the first European settlers in the Mississippi Valley, the French, in the eighteenth century and the lead mining interests that brought them into the Ozarks, as well as the subsequent administrations of French and Spanish colonial officials. The chapter concludes with the arrival of Anglo-American settlers and their slaves, both before and after the Louisiana Purchase.

The Historical Society of New Mexico honors France Vinton Scholes for Outstanding Achievement in Spanish Colonial History 1970

1971 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-232
Author(s):  
Eleanor B. Adams
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Outstanding Achievement ◽  
Peabody Museum ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Back Door

A FEW months ago the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of New Mexico agreed that the Society should, from time to time, recognize outstanding men and women who have worked toward the same goals as the Society: to increase public understanding and knowledge of history, and, in particular, the history of New Mexico. Tonight we are honoring the distinguished historian Dr. France Vinton Scholes, whom I have known for more than thirty-five years, since the autumn day when I first walked past the shrunken heads on the fifth floor of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University to the end of a crooked office corridor–and, all unsuspecting, into my life work. Into the profession of history by the back door! This short journey into a long future led not only to many satisfying years of collaboration with Dr. Scholes, but to an abiding interest in New Mexico and the Spanish Southwest.

Situating the Andean Colonial Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Local History ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Andean Pact

Re-situating Andean colonial history from the perspective of the local historians of ayllu Qaqachaka, in highland Bolivia, this book draws on regional oral history combined with local and public written archives. Rejecting the binary models in vogue in colonial and postcolonial studies (indigenous/non-indigenous, Andean/Western, conquered/conquering), it explores the complex intercalation of legal pluralism and local history in the negotiations around Spanish demands, resulting in the so-called "Andean pact." The Qaqachaka's point of reference is the preceding Inka occupation, so in fulfilling Spanish demands they seek cultural continuity with this recent past. Spanish colonial administration, applies its roots in Roman-Germanic and Islamic law to many practices in the newly-conquered territories. Two major cycles of ayllu tales trace local responses to these colonial demands, in the practices for establishing settlements, and the feeding and dressing of the Catholic saints inside the new church, with their forebears in the Inka mummies.

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