Modern Western temporality is often characterized (quoting Walter Benjamin) as
“homogeneous, empty time.” This temporality is said (in the influential works of Johannes …

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One
involved the relations of Europeans and Native Americans in an Oaxacan town (in New …

A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish
Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the …

Este artículo presenta una interpretación de las historias visuales y escritas de la conquista
de la Nueva España producidas por autores y pintores de Tlaxcala durante el siglo XVI …

3. Alexander von Humboldt was the first to describe this fear of idolatry, writing in 1803:“The
professors of this University, priests from the order of St. Dominic, did not want to expose this …

Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (1581–1585), a Tlaxcalan manuscript that
contains homologous images to the ones in Lienzo de Tlaxcala (of which there are only …

The first school for higher learning founded in the Americas after the Spanish conquest was
for native students. The Imperial College of Santa Cruz was established in 1536 in …

Apenas han transcurrido 500 años desde la caída de Tenochtitlán, y la controversia por
interpretar los sucesos aún sigue viva en nuestros días. Cortés no fue el héroe dominante …

In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, barely thirty years after the arrival of
Spaniards in Mesoamerican lands and the subsequent imposition of colonial rule, the rulers …

This study examines how indigenous groups and individuals responded to and identified
Europeans in moments of early encounter in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, in the late …