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New Spain

A former Spanish viceroyalty (1521-1821) in North America, including the southwest United States, Mexico, Central America north of Panama, and some West Indian islands. It also included the islands of the Philippines.

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New Spain

(Historical Terms) a Spanish viceroyalty of the 16th to 19th centuries, composed of Mexico, Central America north of Panama, the Spanish West Indies, the southwestern US, and the Philippines

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New′ Spain′

a former Spanish viceroyalty (1535–1821) including Central America N of Panama, Mexico, the West Indies, the SW United States, and the Philippines.

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Scardaville, "(Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order: State Authority, Popular Unrest, and the Criminal Justice System in Bourbon Mexico City," in Carlos Aguirre and Robert Buffingron, eds., Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America, (Wilmington, 2000), 1-17; Woodrow Borah, Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real (Berkeley, 1983).

Justice by paperwork: a day in the life of a court scribe in Bourbon Mexico City

These scholarly papers apply this methodology to life in colonial Mexico, and look at subjects such as sadness, joy, desire, jealousy and anxiety, and their application in pursuits like gambling.

Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico

Indigenous writings from the convent; negotiating ethnic autonomy in colonial Mexico.

Indigenous writings from the convent; negotiating ethnic autonomy in colonial Mexico

Through his past work on colonialism in the Andes, his brilliant critique of "world system" analysis, his work on gender in colonial Mexico, and his influence on a generation of graduate students, this author has made an extraordinary imprint on the field of Latin American history.

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988

Land and Society in Colonial Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Miscegenation and racism: Afro-Mexicans in Colonial New Spain

Since then, the only published edition of a Nahuatl play is Burkhart's own (excellent) Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia, 1996).

Nahuatl Theater: Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico

Stern, The Secret History of Gender: Men, Women and Power in Late Colonial Mexico (Chapel Hill, 1995); and Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford, 1999).

Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times.

Indigenous miracles; Nahua authority in colonial Mexico.

Indigenous miracles; Nahua authority in colonial Mexico

In the introduction, Offutt argues that this study is significant, because it represents a new trend in the historiography of the northern frontier region of colonial Mexico. However, the author does so in an anemic and outdated historiographic presentation.

Saltillo, 1770-1810: Town and Region in the Mexican North. (Reviews)

Framing the sacred; the Indian churches of early colonial Mexico.

Framing the sacred; the Indian churches of early colonial Mexico

Lewis's anthropological study is an ambitious attempt to examine the interdependent functioning of caste and gender in colonial Mexico. Her lens is witchcraft, a theme of enduring interest to both scholarly and popular readers.

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

Phelan and Luis Weckmann for colonial Mexico in uncovering cultural ties between the Middle Ages and colonial New Spain.