Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya, (1961- )., Editor.

Villa-Flores, Javier, (1966- ...)., Editor.

Series:

Diálogos Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque (N.M.) : University of New Mexico Press, 2014, cop. 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.

Contents:

Of sadness and joy in colonial Mexico / Jacqueline Holler

The language of desire in colonial Mexico / Linda A. Curcio-Nagy

"If I can't have her, no one else can": jealousy and violence in Mexico / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Emotions and institutions.

The emotions of power: love, anger, and fear, or how to rule the Spanish empire / Alejandro Ca{u4BA5}que

Myth, ritual, and civic pride in the City of the Angels / Frances L. Ramos

Reframing a "dark passion": Bourbon morality, gambling, and the royal lottery in New Spain / Javier Villa-Flores

Keeping and losing one's head: composure and emotional outbursts as political performance in late-colonial Mexico / Andrew B. Fisher

Anxiety and the future at Mexican independence / Matthew D. O'Hara.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826354631

0826354637

OCLC:

874563102