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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Spanish Colonial"”.
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
Seventeenth-century Lives of colonial saints in Peru reflect the Spanish colony's growing independence and changing missionary strategies. Lives of saints Luis Bertran, Francis Solano, Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Juan Macias, Rose of Lima, Martin de Porras and the unrecognized Nicolas de Ayllon …
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Community Formation in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands: San José de las Huertas, New Mexico
… who considered themselves to be culturally Spanish as well as those who were labeled as genizaros (war captives taken from various native groups who were then placed as servants in the homes of Spanish settlers and missionaries). As such, the crafting of a local community and its …
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Colonization to Construction: Bridging the Gap Between Ancient Chamorro, Spanish Colonial & Modern Architecture on Guam
<p>Guam is an island in the Marianas that, over time, has experienced a rich cultural history brought about by its exposure to colonization, natural disasters, warfare and the continual influx of people and culture. Therefore, the architecture that exists on the island is one that divides itself …
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Siblings Overseas. Foundational landscape, law, land distribution, and urban form in 16th-century Spanish colonial cities. Three cases of new towns in Jaen (Spain), Nueva Granada (Colombia) and Cuyo (Argentina).
… ended and focuses on grid cities founded in Spanish domains during the early modern period. After the first fortified settlements in the American coastline were created, the 16th century brought diverse transformations to Spanish colonial new towns both in the Iberian Peninsula, the …
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A critical investigation of the opposition of the Rifi confederation led by Muhammed bin 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi to Spanish colonial expansion in northern Morocco, 1920-1925, and its political and social background
… 1926. After the declaration of a joint Franco-Spanish Protectorate over Morocco in 1912, the Spanish army attempted to impose its authority over the part of north Morocco which was included in its zone. After the end of the First World War the Spanish were opposed in their efforts by a slowly …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by incorporating Hispano-Christian cultural practices while preserving their native ways. The …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by incorporating Hispano-Christian cultural practices while preserving their native ways. The …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
… life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in 1671. It is based on the well-established and widely recognized premise that African captives played a transforming and profoundly disruptive role in Spanish …
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Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965
… Land grants imposed upon the Pueblo world in the Spanish colonial period limited the shrinking Pueblo population. They paradoxically protected Pueblo land from further incursions through the Mexican era. By the American territorial period, Pueblo and Hispano land grants were exposed to similar …
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Salinas Pueblo Missions: The Early History
… reservation. It focuses on the Pueblo Indian and Spanish Colonial mission ruins now protected by the National Park Service, at the management units of Gran Quivira, Abó, and Quarai, while also placing the Salinas story into the broader historical context of New Mexico and U. S. West history. This …
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Performing Theaters of Power: The Holy Office of the Inquisition's General Autos de fe in Spain and Spanish America and the Visual and Physical Representation of Inquisitorial Power, 1481-1736
… had both illustrative and didactic purposes, the Spanish Inquisition announced the sentences and punishments of those convicted heretics it sentenced and condemned. Although most previous scholars have identified these autos de fe as ostensibly a form of religious ritual, it is my contention that …
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The current Peruvian-Ecuadoran border dispute and its background
… later colonized the territory. It was under the Spanish colonial administrations that the seeds for future boundary disputes were sown. Many of the Spanish royal decrees establishing Audiencias were confused and wordy. [TRUNCATED]
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Cochineal : a bright red animal dye.
… dye and was frequently given as a tribute. The Spanish capitalized on this valuable dye, and for three hundred and fifty years cochineal was shipped to the European markets. Sale of cochineal dye fell drastically when natural dyes were replaced by aniline dyes. Today, cochineal is in demand as a …
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Decolonizing the Body
… and in specific the way that it discusses the Spanish Colonial system and the Gold Rush, glosses over the genocide of her indigenous inhabitants and the oppression experienced by those who survived these historical traumas. By focusing on the works of three indigenous poets (Deborah Miranda, …
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"Hybrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event and Time in the ""Cuauhtitlan Annals"" and the ""Historia De La Nacion Chichimeca"
… make use of it as they respond to the colonial situation in which they are immersed. While the Historia de la nacion chichimeca (written in Spanish by the colonial historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl), appears to be a more Christianized account of the pre-Hispanic past than the …
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
<p>The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and</p> <p>Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.</p> <p> In 1493, the Spanish horse importation to the Caribbean islands provided an important stimulus to American exploration as an agent of transportation. In the late nineteenth century, the necessity of horses …
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<i>Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica</i> (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada.
… 1569-1581). Toledo wanted to deliver to the Spanish King a version of Incan history which could subsequently be used as an ideological tool in the search of legal and moral arguments to defend the Andean colonization by the Spanish monarchy. Since his arrival to the Peruvian territories, …
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La Cofradía de Artes y Artesanos Hispánicos: 1978 to 1983 Redefining Tradition in the New Mexican Art Market
… on Hispano artists in 1926, when the annual Spanish Market was formed. The Spanish Market was the sole arts sales venue available to Hispano artists in the exclusionary Santa Fe gallery and museum market. The Spanish Market aimed to preserve traditional Catholic, Penitente religious art …
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The New Westward Expansion: Settler Colonialism and Gentrification in Paula Fox’s <em>Desperate Characters</em> and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s <em>Sabrina and Corina</em>
… involved in a longer history of settler colonialism in the U.S. In Fox’s novel, newly-arrived gentrifiers, the Bentwoods, engage in a new iteration of conquest in the urban frontier, often frustrated by realities which undermine their aestheticized ideal. The novel maintains an uneasy …
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