Autor: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading …

A contemporary of Columbus noted ‘those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives.’ This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank b …

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico. It is easy to assume that emotions are a give …

With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo—defined as excessive viril …