Credit and Socioeconomic Change in Colonial Mexico: Loans and Mortgages in Guadalajara, 1720-1820.

Lebanon, a multi-confessional state, is undergoing a deep socioeconomic change that could trigger a review of its constitutional arrangement. The tiny republic on the Mediterranean was born in 1920 as a liberal democracy with a market economy, where the Christians had the upper hand in politics and the economy. In 1975, Lebanon witnessed a major war that lasted for fifteen years, and a new political system emerged in 1989, dubbed the Ta’ef Accord. The new constitutional arrangement, also known as the “second republic,” transferred major powers to the Muslims. Under the new republic, illiberal policies were adopted in reconstruction, public finance, and monetary policy, coupled with unprecedented corruption at the highest levels. On 17 October 2019, the country exploded in a social revolution which could precipitate the death of the second republic or the demise of the country as another victim of predator neoliberalism.

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Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico

Journal of Latin American Anthropology ◽

10.1525/jlat.2004.9.1.213 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 213-215

Author(s):

James H. Sweet

Keyword(s):

Colonial Mexico

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Philip Wayne Powell, the Cold War, and the Conquest of Northern Mexico

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos ◽

10.1525/mex.2015.31.2.287 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 287-304

Author(s):

Raphael B. Folsom

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Colonial Mexico ◽

Northern Mexico ◽

The Cold War ◽

The U.S

The writings of the U.S. scholar Philip Wayne Powell have had an enduring influence on the historiography of colonial Mexico and the Spanish borderlands. But his writings have never been examined as a unified corpus, and so the deeply reactionary political ideology that lay behind them has never been well understood. By analyzing Powell’s political convictions, this article shows how contemporary scholarship on the conquest of northern Mexico can emerge from Powell’s long shadow. Los escritos del estudioso estadounidense Philip Wayne Powell han ejercido una influencia perdurable sobre la historiografía del México colonial y las zonas fronterizas españolas. Sin embargo, dichos escritos nunca han sido examinados como un corpus unificado, de manera que la ideología política profundamente reaccionaria detrás de ellos nunca ha sido bien comprendida. Al analizar las convicciones políticas de Powell, el presente artículo muestra cómo puede surgir un conocimiento contemporáneo sobre la conquista del norte de México a partir de la larga sombra de Powell.

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