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Baroque Sovereignty : Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico /

This book examines the emergence of a creole archive of artifacts, history, and traditions of colonial Mexico, primarily curated by the polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The author posits the centrality of this archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: More, Anna Herron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Allegory, archives, and Creole sovereignty
  • "Nostra academia in Barbara ..." : building an archive on the imperial frontier
  • Mexican hieroglyphics : Creole antiquarianism and the politics of empire
  • Counterhistory and Creole governance in the riot of 1692
  • Creole citizenship, race, and the modern world system.