Alejandro Cañeque
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Cañeque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Cañeque |
| SIGNATURE | CAÑEQUE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0669-8449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Expanding the Borders of Atlantic History
The field of Atlantic history initially focused exclusively on the Anglo-American North Atlantic, largely ignoring the South Atlantic and Africa. This approach, dominant after World War II, portrayed a “Western civilization” based on North Atlantic liberal values, akin to a postwar Mediterranean. Over time, historians of the Anglo-American Atlantic criticized this narrow focus, recognizing the broader interconnectedness of the Atlantic world. Rec…
Thinking with the Spanish Empire
This article argues that in order to achieve a fuller and more accurate understanding of the history of the early modern Spanish world, we need to study the Spanish Empire as an integrated and coherent unit of analysis, instead of separating it into nation-state fragments or simply placing it in the background of our studies. It was an empire that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was not only European and American but also African and…
Evangelización, cartografía y discurso colonial El mapa de 1713 de la misión jesuita de Mojos
Este artículo analiza el significado histórico de un folleto impreso hacia 1713 por la Compañía de Jesús para promocionar la misión de Mojos, situada en el nordeste de la actual Bolivia. Aunque los historiadores generalmente se refieren a este documento como «el mapa de la misión de Mojos», en este estudio se argumenta que el folleto de 1713 es mucho más que un mapa, pudiéndose entender como el equivalente de una típica crónica misional jesuita. …
The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Sabine Pazram, ed. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 70. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxvi + 382 pp. €143. - Volume 75 Issue 1
In the Shadow of Francis Xavier
This article focuses on the violent deaths of the Jesuit missionaries Rodolfo Acquaviva, Marcello Mastrilli, and Diego Luis de San Vítores, who were killed in the course of their evangelical endeavors in India, Japan, and the Mariana Islands, respectively. It elucidates the ways in which the figure of St. Francis Xavier intersected with the Jesuit ideal of martyrdom, while situating the three martyred Jesuits within the history of Iberian imperia…
Las repúblicas de la Monarquía. Pensamiento constitucionalista y republicano en Nueva España, 1550–1610 ‐ by Quijano Velasco, Francisco
Letting Yourself Be Skinned Alive
This article explores the close connection that existed between an increasingly globalized world and the revived ideal of martyrdom that characterized early modern Europe. This ideal energized Catholic societies, the Spanish Empire above all, in their impulse to convert the entire world to Christianity, in that way decisively expanding the geographical horizons of many of its inhabitants. The article focuses on the Spanish Discalced Carmelite Jer…
Mártires y discurso martirial en la formación de las fronteras misionales jesuitas
A través de un análisis de los contextos discursivos y la intertextualidad de algunas obras jesuitas sobre martirio en el Nuevo Mundo, el artículo propone que, en su momento, estas historias resultaban creíbles, en primer lugar, porque las historias martiriales servían para confirmar muchos de los prejuicios religiosos de la época, en particular la noción de la brutalidad innata del pagano, del infiel, del hereje, del apóstata o del bárbaro. Por …
The King's Living Image
To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship. Examining this figure, The King's Living Image challenges long-held perspectives on the political natur…
The Political and Institutional History of Colonial Spanish America
This essay argues for a need to develop a new political history of colonial Spanish America in order to bring up to date the old institutional history of the Spanish empire. In recent decades, historians of colonial Spanish America have not shown much interest in the study of political and institutional history. Originally, this constituted a welcome reaction against the previous emphasis on the institutional and legal aspects of the Spanish empi…
Imaging the Spanish Empire
On 15 August 1663, the feast of the Assumption was celebrated in Mexico City with all due solemnity, including the celebration of a mass in the cathedral that was attended by all the colonial autho
Another Face of Empire
Reviewed by: Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism Alejandro Cañeque Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. By Daniel Castro. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Bartolomé de las Casas is, no doubt, a crucial figure in the history of Spanish colonialism in the New World. He is also one of the most controversial. In t…
The King's Living Image
De sillas y almohadones o de la naturaleza ritual del poder en la nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII
El artículo estudia la interrelación entre ritual público y autoridad colonial en la Nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII. En la sociedad colonial, el afianzamiento de la autoridad dependía más de cuestiones tales como prestigio, reputación y/o apariencia pública que del uso de la fuerza. Eso permite explicar la trascendencia tan grande que los contemporáneos dieron a todo tipo de rituales públicos pues sus efectos estaban lejos de ser algo insi…
Theater of Power
On the morning of November 19, 1659, the Inquisitors of the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the City of Mexico celebrated Mass. Then, the prisoners were fed and lined up for the procession of the auto de fe that was to be celebrated that day. The procession of the familiares (officers of the Inquisition) and those to be reconciled or relaxed went by some streets, and the Tribunal of the Inquisition by others. The parade of gentlemen, including mor…
Theater of Power
On the morning of November 19, 1659, the Inquisitors of the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the City of Mexico celebrated Mass. Then, the prisoners were fed and lined up for the procession of the auto de fe that was to be celebrated that day. The procession of the familiares (officers of the Inquisition) and those to be reconciled or relaxed went by some streets, and the Tribunal of the Inquisition by others. The parade of gentlemen, including mor…
Imaging the Spanish Empire
On 15 August 1663, the feast of the Assumption was celebrated in Mexico City with all due solemnity, including the celebration of a mass in the cathedral that was attended by all the colonial autho
In the Shadow of Francis Xavier
This article focuses on the violent deaths of the Jesuit missionaries Rodolfo Acquaviva, Marcello Mastrilli, and Diego Luis de San Vítores, who were killed in the course of their evangelical endeavors in India, Japan, and the Mariana Islands, respectively. It elucidates the ways in which the figure of St. Francis Xavier intersected with the Jesuit ideal of martyrdom, while situating the three martyred Jesuits within the history of Iberian imperia…
Theater of Power
On the morning of November 19, 1659, the Inquisitors of the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the City of Mexico celebrated Mass. Then, the prisoners were fed and lined up for the procession of the auto de fe that was to be celebrated that day. The procession of the familiares (officers of the Inquisition) and those to be reconciled or relaxed went by some streets, and the Tribunal of the Inquisition by others. The parade of gentlemen, including mor…
The King's Living Image
De sillas y almohadones o de la naturaleza ritual del poder en la nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII
El artículo estudia la interrelación entre ritual público y autoridad colonial en la Nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII. En la sociedad colonial, el afianzamiento de la autoridad dependía más de cuestiones tales como prestigio, reputación y/o apariencia pública que del uso de la fuerza. Eso permite explicar la trascendencia tan grande que los contemporáneos dieron a todo tipo de rituales públicos pues sus efectos estaban lejos de ser algo insi…
Another Face of Empire
Reviewed by: Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism Alejandro Cañeque Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. By Daniel Castro. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Bartolomé de las Casas is, no doubt, a crucial figure in the history of Spanish colonialism in the New World. He is also one of the most controversial. In t…
Imaging the Spanish Empire
On 15 August 1663, the feast of the Assumption was celebrated in Mexico City with all due solemnity, including the celebration of a mass in the cathedral that was attended by all the colonial autho
The King's Living Image
To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship. Examining this figure, The King's Living Image challenges long-held perspectives on the political natur…
The Political and Institutional History of Colonial Spanish America
This essay argues for a need to develop a new political history of colonial Spanish America in order to bring up to date the old institutional history of the Spanish empire. In recent decades, historians of colonial Spanish America have not shown much interest in the study of political and institutional history. Originally, this constituted a welcome reaction against the previous emphasis on the institutional and legal aspects of the Spanish empi…
Mártires y discurso martirial en la formación de las fronteras misionales jesuitas
A través de un análisis de los contextos discursivos y la intertextualidad de algunas obras jesuitas sobre martirio en el Nuevo Mundo, el artículo propone que, en su momento, estas historias resultaban creíbles, en primer lugar, porque las historias martiriales servían para confirmar muchos de los prejuicios religiosos de la época, en particular la noción de la brutalidad innata del pagano, del infiel, del hereje, del apóstata o del bárbaro. Por …
Las repúblicas de la Monarquía. Pensamiento constitucionalista y republicano en Nueva España, 1550–1610 ‐ by Quijano Velasco, Francisco
Letting Yourself Be Skinned Alive
This article explores the close connection that existed between an increasingly globalized world and the revived ideal of martyrdom that characterized early modern Europe. This ideal energized Catholic societies, the Spanish Empire above all, in their impulse to convert the entire world to Christianity, in that way decisively expanding the geographical horizons of many of its inhabitants. The article focuses on the Spanish Discalced Carmelite Jer…
The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Sabine Pazram, ed. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 70. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxvi + 382 pp. €143. - Volume 75 Issue 1
In the Shadow of Francis Xavier
This article focuses on the violent deaths of the Jesuit missionaries Rodolfo Acquaviva, Marcello Mastrilli, and Diego Luis de San Vítores, who were killed in the course of their evangelical endeavors in India, Japan, and the Mariana Islands, respectively. It elucidates the ways in which the figure of St. Francis Xavier intersected with the Jesuit ideal of martyrdom, while situating the three martyred Jesuits within the history of Iberian imperia…
Thinking with the Spanish Empire
This article argues that in order to achieve a fuller and more accurate understanding of the history of the early modern Spanish world, we need to study the Spanish Empire as an integrated and coherent unit of analysis, instead of separating it into nation-state fragments or simply placing it in the background of our studies. It was an empire that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was not only European and American but also African and…
Evangelización, cartografía y discurso colonial El mapa de 1713 de la misión jesuita de Mojos
Este artículo analiza el significado histórico de un folleto impreso hacia 1713 por la Compañía de Jesús para promocionar la misión de Mojos, situada en el nordeste de la actual Bolivia. Aunque los historiadores generalmente se refieren a este documento como «el mapa de la misión de Mojos», en este estudio se argumenta que el folleto de 1713 es mucho más que un mapa, pudiéndose entender como el equivalente de una típica crónica misional jesuita. …
Expanding the Borders of Atlantic History
The field of Atlantic history initially focused exclusively on the Anglo-American North Atlantic, largely ignoring the South Atlantic and Africa. This approach, dominant after World War II, portrayed a “Western civilization” based on North Atlantic liberal values, akin to a postwar Mediterranean. Over time, historians of the Anglo-American Atlantic criticized this narrow focus, recognizing the broader interconnectedness of the Atlantic world. Rec…
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