Letras de la Nueva España is a digital collection for the dissemination of texts related to the colonial period and culture of Mexico, produced with the support of the Institute for Historical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), thanks to the constant work of its Principal Investigator Gisela von Wobeser. She has envisioned this collection as an effective way of reaching an international audience for New Spain studies. This collection houses editions of texts from the time, as well as studies from various disciplines that foster a better understanding of one of the most important and influential viceroyalties in Latin America.
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Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
This pioneering book written by our colleague Gisela von Wobeser studies the transformation of the Mexican landscape with the introduction of European agriculture. To do this, she explains the control of two fundamental components: land and water. As usual, von Wobeser works with a large and well-chosen selection of archival...
The Novohispana Society made extensive use of credit. The ladies of the high society paid for the manufacture of their dresses in installments, the miners obtained advances from the merchants to exploit the mines, the stores of the towns supplied goods on credit, the workers of the haciendas and obrajes...
During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...