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Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla /

Located between Mexico City and Veracruz, Puebla has been a political hub since its founding as Puebla de los Ángeles in 1531. Frances L. Ramos's dynamic and meticulously researched study exposes and explains the many (and often surprising) ways that politics and political culture were forged,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramos, Frances L., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New Spain's "second city"
  • Explaining monarchy in early modern Puebla
  • A reception for a prince
  • Universal religion in a local context
  • Power, solidarity, and diversity in the city of the angels
  • The industry of spectacle
  • Ritual and conflict : the political implications of ceremonial disputes, circa 1700-1750. The ceremonial expression of jurisdictional tension, 1750-1775.