Allan J. Kuethe

Aportaciones metodológicas y económicas al sistema presidial de Texas, 1720-1772

This article tries to show not only new methodological aspects of studies about military financing in Indias but also tries to answer some important questions concerning to military fiscalization of Texas province in the eighteen century. It is well known the contribution of Rivera and Rubi on the frontier history: two excellent regulations in 1729 and 1772. However, no study has tried to show the real economic impact over the frontier (soldiers, missionaries, presidios), and only a few studies have availed themselves of cajas reales to analyse the way in which Mexico supported the northern frontier. This study is the first one which tries to give a logical and historical explanation about these matters: cost of the presidios in Texas during XVIII century, money circulation and problems about the applications of the 1729 Rivera regulation.

Comercio y emigracion en America en el siglo XVIII (review)

This volume assembles six essays addressing the interplay between the Canary Islands and the New World during the eighteenth century. It focuses primarily upon the role the islands played in the commerce of Spain and its colonies and upon the emigration of islanders, although English America figured prominently into the story about trade and valuable insights into early Bourbon governance arise from the isleno experience. Manuel Hernandez Gonzalez of Laguna University in Tenerife combines his broad bibliographical knowledge with ambitious archival research to craft these contributions.

Pablo de Olavide: El espacio de la ilustracion y la reforma universitaria

vated as those familially intertwined with both republics, like Juan de Betanzos or Garcilaso de la Vega. While the content of this volume is more Eurocentric than his part 1, it represents the conflict between cultures with a dose of self-reflexivity, and a distance often absent from these early narratives. More unusually, Indian motives are considered with the same shrewd attention paid to Spaniards; he depicts Indians as alternately intrigued, disgusted, impressed and confused by their invaders, and the reader is left understanding how, if not why, such a small group of armed men could slip through the interstices of the crumbling Inca empire. The Cooks here find a simple and engaging tone that well approximates Cieza’s own, and supplement the text with a critical introduction and ample footnotes that make it ideal for classroom use. They have also furnished illustrations from the Seville 1553 edition of part 1 as well as a number of drawings from Guaman Poma de Ayala’s now ubiquitous Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. This translation of Cieza’s chronicle will be welcomed by students and scholars for its fresh and complicated retelling of the story of Cajamarca and its aftermath.

Ensayo politico sobre la Isla de Cuba (review)

long and comfortable familiarity with the subject and, by the author’s own admission, a more “complex appreciation” of gender issues and the dynamics of power within colonial society. Exceptionally well documented, this edition tracks the social and historical context in which María wrote through legal records, notarial archives, and historical research on the hacienda and Tepeaca in particular. The critique also places María’s visionary writings within the mystic model, demonstrating how the particular frames of colonial society, Counter-Reformation limitations, and María’s individual circumstances shaped this expression of affective piety. Evaluating María de San José’s life story from the perspective of both its literary and historical contexts, Myers and Powell demonstrate convincingly that religious women’s writings deserve a place in the wider scope of colonial studies from which they have too often been excluded.