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1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"In this painstakingly researched study David Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. His narrative paints a vivid portrait of their struggles to retain their identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. Most studies of 16th-century Mexican crypto-Jews have focused on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the resales, the hinterland mining camps. Similarly, Gitlitz challenges traditional scholarship that has focused solely on macro issues. He combines those issues with close analysis of the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver to provide a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of secret Jews"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings in the Raya de Portugal -- Going to Mexico -- The Castellanos's Jewish life in Mexico City in the 1530s and 1540s -- Tomás's first mine: Ayoteco -- Tomás de Fonseca's Pachuca Mine and the mining revolution -- Tomás's mine in Tlalpujahua -- Tomás de Fonseca reconnects -- The Portuguese come to America -- From solitary worship to community -- The Taxco miners -- The Jewish life of the Taxco miners -- Pachuca and Manuel de Lucena's general store -- Lucena's judaizing community in Mexico City and Pachuca -- Judaizing from Tlalpujahua -- Destruction and survival -- Some conclusions -- Origins and arrivals -- Holiday observations -- Enriquez-Lucena holiday attendees. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Crypto-Jews -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
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Crypto-Jews. |
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Mexico. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Jews -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
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Jews. |
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Silver miners -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
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Silver miners. |
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Silver mines and mining -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
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Silver mines and mining. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gitlitz, David M. (David Martin). Living in Silverado. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019] 9780826360793 (DLC) 2019005817 |
| ISBN |
9780826360809 (e-book) |
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0826360807 |
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9780826360793 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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