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1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
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Gender group: gdr Men |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Californians |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ History teachers |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college administrators |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to instead examine colonial-era conceptions of the future Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical memory, O'Hara--a Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico--rejects this approach and its assumptions about time experience. Ranging widely across economic, political, and cultural practices, O'Hara demonstrates how colonial subjects used the resources of tradition and Catholicism to craft new futures. An intriguing, innovative work, this volume will be widely read by scholars of Latin American history, religious studies, and historical methodology. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Confessions -- Stars -- Money -- Prayers -- Promises -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexico -- History.
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Mexico. |
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History. |
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Mexico -- Civilization.
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Mexico -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Civilization. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Hara, Matthew D. (Matthew David), 1970- History of the future in colonial Mexico. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300233933 (DLC) 2018935323 (OCoLC)1061287206 |
| ISBN |
9780300240993 (electronic book) |
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0300240996 (electronic book) |
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9780300233933 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0300233930 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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