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One night in 1789, three men used machetes to slaughter 11 innocent people in their home. The killers then stole a fortune in silver. This book translates a fictionalization of what the classic nineteenth-century novelist José de Cuéllar viewed as The Sin of the Century.
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In 2023, Cambridge University Press published Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How they Shaped the History of a Nation. According to Matthew Restall, ‘The title of this stunningly original new book barely hints at the complex creativity awaiting the reader."
Media: New Books Network
In recreating this paper trail of Enlightenment-era greed and savagery, this book begins with a brutal massacre of eleven men and women by three killers armed with machetes on the night of October 23, 1789. We can still learn from Mexico's “crime of the century.”
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The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City
University of Nebraska Press, 2022
Media and Reviews: New Books Network, Latin American History Podcast, Journal of Social History, The Americas
Advance reviews:
“Veritable intellectual dynamite—bursting with insights into colonial Mexico’s class and caste structures; exploding with new interpretations on criminality, law, poverty, and social order; and igniting new conversations on the linkages between surveillance, urban control, race, justice, and the Enlightenment. A masterwork of historical scholarship, The Enlightened Patrolman finely represents social history at its best.”—Ben Vinson III, author of Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
“A richly textured reconstruction of the lowliest agents of late colonial order. . . . Combining small stories and a broad perspective, Germeten offers the first chapter of Mexico’s long history of resistance and negotiation of police power.”—Pablo Piccato, author of A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
“An outstanding book that will help to reshape our understanding of early modernity in the Spanish New World as well as the social and cultural history of race and gender in one of the great urban centers of the time.”—William B. Taylor, author of Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
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Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
University of California Press, 2018
Media and Reviews: New Books Network, Journal of Social History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Americas, The American Historical Review
This gender-focused book investigates transactional sex in Spain and Mexico from the medieval era to the nineteenth century through the theoretical lens of recent sex work activism.
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Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Honor, and Witchcraft in Colonial Colombia
University of New Mexico Press, 2013
This book brings to life the dangers of women exerting their sexual agency in Colombia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, focused on true stories of erotic magic, honor killings, and both satisfied and frustrated desires.
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A Treatise on Slavery by Alonso de Sandoval (1627)
Hackett, 2008
A translation of a missionary guide for working with African slaves in colonial Colombia and one of the first book-length accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
University Press of Florida, 2006
Reviews: Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Latin Americanist, The Americas, The American Historical Review, Religious Studies Review, Confraternitas, Latin American Perspectives, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology among others.
Drawn from more than 20 Mexican archives, this pioneering work describes the social and religious life of Africans in Mexico, using documentation from more than 60 Afro-Mexican brotherhoods, most of which had never before been documented in an academic book.
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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices (Religions of the Americas Series)
University of New Mexico Press, 2017
"Making Sense of Geographies - Regionalism in the Study of Latin American History"
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The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
"Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City"
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Redes de Nación y Espacios de poder: La comunidad irlandesa en España y la América Española, 1600-1825
Ministerio de Defensa, 2012
"Who was Captain Cornelio Cornelius? Dying for honor on the old Spanish Main"
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Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World
Hackett, 2009
"Juan Roque’s Donation of a House to the Zape Confraternity, Mexico City, 1623"
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Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (Diálogos Series)
University of New Mexico Press, 2009
"Colonial Middle Men? Mulatto Identities in New Spain’s Confraternities"
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Local Religion in Colonial Mexico (Diálogos Series)
University of New Mexico Press, 2006
"Routes to Respectability Confraternities and Men of African Descent in New Spain"
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