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The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico / Matthew D. O'Hara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Hara, Matthew D., author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Mexico--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Future, The.
- Technological innovations--Mexico--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Confessions
- 3. Stars
- 4. Money
- 5. Prayers
- 6. Promises
- 7. Epilogue, as Prologue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780300240993
- 0300240996
- OCLC:
- 1059577211
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