Entre los meses de marzo y junio de 1759 se llevó a cabo una entrada general al Chaco en la que participaron las gobernaciones del Tucumán, Buenos Aires y Paraguay. A pesar de la enorme cantidad de documentos que se produjeron en esa instancia –tanto escritos como mapas y croquis–, este episodio ha suscitado escaso interés historiográfico. En este ...
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The article examines portraits, correspondence and personal belongings of María Josefa de Velasco and María Margarita Carrión in order to discover how creole women used jewels and dresses to shape their public and private image. By studying the tangible culture and ascertaining the price, variety, origin and circulation of these items, it addresses...
The study depicts America’s image according to the “Narrative of the current state of America” by the Spanish civil servant Francisco Díez Catalán, who settled in Quito around 1802. It provides an account of his evolution as a politician and civil servant in the administration of the Baron of Carondelet with Díez Catalán’s purpose for writing this ...
The article explores the use of the figure of the king during the indigenous uprisings that took place in La Paz at the end of the eighteenth century. On the basis of a report on the uprising, it gives an account of the arguments of the insurgents, who assured that they were acting at the king’s behest, a claim that allowed them to intervene in col...
Cuitlahuac, present-day Tláhuac in southern Mexico City, was an ancient realm situated on an island separating the lakes of Xochimilco and Chalco. This habitat determined the lives of its inhabitants since its foundation until well into the colonial period, as their main economic activity was fishing. However, at the end of the nineteenth and begin...
The paper aims to analyse, by highlighting the spatial dimension, the phenomenon of piracy in Yucatan during the sixteenth century. The activity of French and English corsairs in the Yucatan coasts constituted a historical geography. In order to verify the above, it was considered two spatial aspects: a) describing the location and spatial distribu...
On the basis of descriptions from chroniclers and archives, the present article examines the pilgrimages between Chiquinquirá and Tunja during the plagues of 1587 and 1633, a blend of popular piety and faith in the heavenly medicine by both indigenous peoples and Spaniards. It also reviews the iconography of this peculiar type of painting, its rela...
This article deals with the relaciones from the earliest Iberian expeditions to the New Kingdom of Granada, with an special emphasis on those written by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and the captains of his troop. Although these documents have been used as sources in various historical and anthropological studies, a balanced approach to this matter, i...
Between the ending of the 17th and the first decades of the 18th century, it is worthwhile to note the appearance of two population settlements in the Bayamo region: a socalled “Indians town” (Jiguaní), and a “Spaniards” town, the latter of which was to evolve into a city-the city of Holguin-. At first glance, the two villages had little, if any, i...
