Afterword

2018 ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Black Legend

The oldest reference to Bernardo de Gálvez’s “black legend” is by Alexander von Humboldt. In his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, first published in Paris in 1811, he says he heard during his travels in Mexico in 1803 that “Count Bernardo de Galvez [was] accused of having conceived the project of rendering New Spain independent from the peninsula.”...

Humboldt in Mexico, 1803–1804

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron Echenberg
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Colonial Archives

During his breathtaking 19th-century scientific explorations of New Spain (as Mexico was known under Spanish rule), illustrious German scientific traveler Alexander von Humboldt crammed a lifetime of scientific studies into one extraordinary year: exhausting inspections of three major colonial silver mines, prodigious hikes to the summits of most of Mexico’s major volcanoes while taking scientific measurements and botanical samples, careful study of hitherto secret Spanish colonial archives in Mexico City, and visits to recently uncovered archaeological sites of pre-Hispanic cultures. Humboldt wrote voluminously about his Mexican experiences and is an indispensable source of insights into the colony of New Spain on the eve of its troubled birth as independent Mexico a decade later.

Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816–1823)

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Eric Van Young
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Madame De Stael ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
The Way

This chapter sees Alamán through most of the decade 1814-1823 as he traveled and studied in Europe, travels that can be traced in some detail through his surviving passports and visas. He visited many of the major cities in the region, among them Paris, London, Madrid, and spent time in Italy and Germany. Along the way he met a number of the outstanding literary and scientific figures of the age, such as Alexander von Humboldt and Madame de Staël, and found himself once again in Paris during the return of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. He returned briefly to New Spain in 1820 to be betrothed to Narcisa Castrillo and occupy two minor political posts before being elected a deputy to the Spanish imperial Cortes (diet) in Madrid. He departed for Spain late in 1820 and would be gone for two years.

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander von Humboldt ◽  
John Black
Keyword(s):  
New Spain

Conquest of New Spain:Conquest of New Spain.

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-40
Author(s):  
Benjamin Keen
Keyword(s):  
New Spain

Dialogues

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Spain ◽  
American Art ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
State Building ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Political Space ◽  
California Missions ◽  
The University

The California missions, whose original church spaces and visual programs were produced by Iberian, Mexican, and Native artisans between 1769 and 1823, occupy an ambiguous chronological, geographical, and political space. They occupy lands that have pertained to conflicting territorialities: from Native nations, to New Spain, to Mexico, to the modern multicultural California. The physical and visual landscapes of the missions have been sites of complex and often incongruous religious experiences; historical trauma and romantic vision; Indigenous genocide, exploitation, resistance, and survivance; state building and global enterprise. This Dialogues section brings together critical voices, including especially the voices of California Indian scholars, to interrogate received models for thinking about the art historical legacies of the California missions. Together, the contributing authors move beyond and across borders and promote new decolonial strategies that strive to be responsive to the experience of California Indian communities and nations. This conversation emerges from cross-disciplinary relationships established at a two-day conference, “‘American’ Art and the Legacy of Conquest: Art at California’s Missions in the Global 18th–20th Centuries,” sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and held at the University of California, Los Angeles, in November 2019.

The Sultan Hernán Cortés

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-84
Author(s):  
Nicole T. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Religious Drama ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Hernan Cortes

In 1541, the Franciscan friar Motolinía sent to Spain an account of the Tlaxcalan people performing the religious drama The Conquest of Jerusalem in Tlaxcala, New Spain. Previous scholars have read his festival account to reflect only local political interests. I argue that it is a palimpsest, containing both the Tlaxcalans’ ambitious diplomatic strategy, expressed in their performance, and Motolinía’s efforts to steer Castile’s policies in the Americas and the greater Mediterranean.

La filosofía en la sociedad de la ciencia y la interpretación. Entrevista a Alejandro Vigo

Open Insight ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
David González Ginoccio ◽  
Mauricio Lecón Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt

Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, 1958) es Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1988) y Doctor por la de Heidelberg (1994) con una tesis sobre la teoría de la acción aristotélica, escrita bajo la supervisión del Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieland (cfr. Vigo, 1996). Ha impartido cursos de griego clásico, filosofía antigua, Kant y neokantismo, fenomenología y hermenéutica, teoría de la acción y ética. Ha estudiado y traducido a Platón y Aristóteles. Sobre ellos y autores como Heidegger, Suárez, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl y Gadamer ha publicado alrededor de cien artículos, voces en diccionarios, reseñas especializadas, notas en prensa, etc. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del departamento de filosofía de la Universidad de Navarra. Ha sido coeditor de Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy y es Miembro Titular del Institut International de Philosophie, École Normal Supérieur – CNRS; participa en los consejos editoriales de revistas especializadas como Escritos de Filosofía, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía,$QXDULR)LORVyÀ- co, Méthodus, Tópicos y Open Insight. En el pasado simposio de la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Bamberg, 24-27.III.2011) recibió el Premio de Investigación Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, que reconoce anualmente la trayectoria científica de académicos de todas las áreas. El prof. Vigo realiza actualmente una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Halle para estudiar la teoría de la acción de Kant.

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