Author: William B. Taylor

Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people- …

Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enri …

This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related …

The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history …

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. During the second half of the eighteenth century …

Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United State …

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Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United State …

The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vaga …

Alex Tinsdill nunca pensou que um simples teste de DNA o levaria a uma herança de US$ 250 milhões e à Mansão Cove Point, uma enorme propriedade construída durante a Era Dourada na Costa do Ouro em Lo …

Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United State …