Robert C Schwaller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 453152 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert C Schwaller |
| NOMBRES | Robert C |
| APELLIDO | Schwaller |
| FIRMA | SCHWALLER R C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4898-7945 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Sins of Excess
Overlooked Places and Peoples
Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries
Journal Article Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America. Get access Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2020. Pp. 184. Paper $35.00. Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller University of Kansas, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Capturing the quotidian
In 1581, Spanish magistrates near Celaya investigated the murder of Andres Vasquez at the hands of his employer, the infamous Antonio de Espejo.1 While the case itself centered on the dispute that
Contested Conquests
On July 13, 1571, King Philip II of Spain, via a real cédula, authorized the Audiencia of Santo Domingo to enact plans to “conquer” a community of African cimarrones (maroons, runaway slaves) located about 36 miles from the city of Santo Domingo. The king offered to those who ventured forth compensation in the form of the cimarrones they captured as slaves. At face value, the substance of this order was not particularly unique. Since the 1520s, r…
Infrastructures of Race
In the late 1890s, Spanish authorities in Cuba relocated over half a million civilians, placing them in the first modern concentration camps. This model of control through concentration would be copied by British and American authorities in their colonial holdings before becoming infamous as a central feature of Nazi Germany's anti-Semitic policies. Daniel Nemser's Infrastructures of Race argues that the spatial concentration of colonial subjects…
Resistencia de los negros en el virreinato de México (siglos XVI-XVII)
In his most recent work, Jean-Pierre Tardieu attempts to shine a light on the “social invisibility” of Africans and their resistance in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico. In previous works, Tardieu has examined a diversity of African experiences in Panama, Venezuela, and Peru. In this work, he analyzes the variety of ways that Africans resisted Spanish authorities in Mexico across the first two centuries of colonial rule. He largely succe…
Purchasing Whiteness
No Mere Shadows
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Black Ranching Frontiers
Book Review| January 01 2014 Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. By Sluyter, Andrew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index. $45.00 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 197–198. ht…
Women of the Iberian Atlantic
Book Review| July 01 2014 Women of the Iberian Atlantic Women of the Iberian Atlantic. Edited by Owens, Sarah E. and Mangan, Jane E.. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. vi + 278 pp., introduction, index. $26.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 592–594. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681894 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
Histories of Race and Racism
Book Review| January 01 2013 Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited by Gotkowitz, Laura. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. vii + 400 pp., introduction, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethn…
For Honor and Defence’
The right to bear arms was one of the most exclusive sumptuary rights in early modern Iberia. The privilege of carrying weapons was transferred to Spanish America where it became a right reserved to Spaniards. This article examines over one hundred and fifty licenses to bear arms granted to non-Spaniards in New Spain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These licenses preserve the rhetoric of honor used by supplicants in ord…
The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of colonial society. Conquistadors, encomenderos, estancieros, missionaries, and even tradesmen learned native languages because it helped further their interests in a society divided between two cultural spheres, Hispanic and indigenous. This article highlights the unique position of sixteenth-century …
Mulata, Hija De Negro Y India
Since the fifteenth century, the term "mulato" has been used to describe individuals of mixed African and European ancestry. Through an examination of mulatos from sixteenth century New Spain this piece complicates our understanding of the usage and implication of this socio-racial ascription. Both demographic and anecdotal evidence suggests that in the early colonial period mulato frequently described individuals of mixed African-indigenous ance…
From Africa to Jamaica
Book Review| July 01 2011 From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807; The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807. By Diptee, Audra A.. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xiv + 187 pp., introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $69.99 cloth.)The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century Afri…
Bonfires of Culture
Book Review| October 01 2011 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540. By Don, Patricia Lopes. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xiii + 263 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works…
Reshaping New Spain
Book Review| July 01 2007 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. By Ethilia Ruiz Medrano. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. x + 320 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: T…
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819
Book Review| April 01 2007 Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819 Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819. Edited by Chiyo Ishikawa. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. $50.00 cloth.) Robert Schwaller Robert Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 364–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-072 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
Bonfires of Culture
Book Review| October 01 2011 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540. By Don, Patricia Lopes. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xiii + 263 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works…
The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of colonial society. Conquistadors, encomenderos, estancieros, missionaries, and even tradesmen learned native languages because it helped further their interests in a society divided between two cultural spheres, Hispanic and indigenous. This article highlights the unique position of sixteenth-century …
Contested Conquests
On July 13, 1571, King Philip II of Spain, via a real cédula, authorized the Audiencia of Santo Domingo to enact plans to “conquer” a community of African cimarrones (maroons, runaway slaves) located about 36 miles from the city of Santo Domingo. The king offered to those who ventured forth compensation in the form of the cimarrones they captured as slaves. At face value, the substance of this order was not particularly unique. Since the 1520s, r…
For Honor and Defence’
The right to bear arms was one of the most exclusive sumptuary rights in early modern Iberia. The privilege of carrying weapons was transferred to Spanish America where it became a right reserved to Spaniards. This article examines over one hundred and fifty licenses to bear arms granted to non-Spaniards in New Spain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These licenses preserve the rhetoric of honor used by supplicants in ord…
Purchasing Whiteness
Reshaping New Spain
Book Review| July 01 2007 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. By Ethilia Ruiz Medrano. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. x + 320 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: T…
Overlooked Places and Peoples
Mulata, Hija De Negro Y India
Since the fifteenth century, the term "mulato" has been used to describe individuals of mixed African and European ancestry. Through an examination of mulatos from sixteenth century New Spain this piece complicates our understanding of the usage and implication of this socio-racial ascription. Both demographic and anecdotal evidence suggests that in the early colonial period mulato frequently described individuals of mixed African-indigenous ance…
Reshaping New Spain
Book Review| July 01 2007 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550 Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. By Ethilia Ruiz Medrano. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. x + 320 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: T…
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819
Book Review| April 01 2007 Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819 Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819. Edited by Chiyo Ishikawa. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. $50.00 cloth.) Robert Schwaller Robert Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 364–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-072 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
Mulata, Hija De Negro Y India
Since the fifteenth century, the term "mulato" has been used to describe individuals of mixed African and European ancestry. Through an examination of mulatos from sixteenth century New Spain this piece complicates our understanding of the usage and implication of this socio-racial ascription. Both demographic and anecdotal evidence suggests that in the early colonial period mulato frequently described individuals of mixed African-indigenous ance…
From Africa to Jamaica
Book Review| July 01 2011 From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807; The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807. By Diptee, Audra A.. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xiv + 187 pp., introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $69.99 cloth.)The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century Afri…
Bonfires of Culture
Book Review| October 01 2011 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540. By Don, Patricia Lopes. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xiii + 263 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works…
For Honor and Defence’
The right to bear arms was one of the most exclusive sumptuary rights in early modern Iberia. The privilege of carrying weapons was transferred to Spanish America where it became a right reserved to Spaniards. This article examines over one hundred and fifty licenses to bear arms granted to non-Spaniards in New Spain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These licenses preserve the rhetoric of honor used by supplicants in ord…
The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of colonial society. Conquistadors, encomenderos, estancieros, missionaries, and even tradesmen learned native languages because it helped further their interests in a society divided between two cultural spheres, Hispanic and indigenous. This article highlights the unique position of sixteenth-century …
Histories of Race and Racism
Book Review| January 01 2013 Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited by Gotkowitz, Laura. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. vii + 400 pp., introduction, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethn…
No Mere Shadows
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Black Ranching Frontiers
Book Review| January 01 2014 Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. By Sluyter, Andrew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index. $45.00 cloth.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 197–198. ht…
Women of the Iberian Atlantic
Book Review| July 01 2014 Women of the Iberian Atlantic Women of the Iberian Atlantic. Edited by Owens, Sarah E. and Mangan, Jane E.. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. vi + 278 pp., introduction, index. $26.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 592–594. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681894 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
Purchasing Whiteness
Contested Conquests
On July 13, 1571, King Philip II of Spain, via a real cédula, authorized the Audiencia of Santo Domingo to enact plans to “conquer” a community of African cimarrones (maroons, runaway slaves) located about 36 miles from the city of Santo Domingo. The king offered to those who ventured forth compensation in the form of the cimarrones they captured as slaves. At face value, the substance of this order was not particularly unique. Since the 1520s, r…
Infrastructures of Race
In the late 1890s, Spanish authorities in Cuba relocated over half a million civilians, placing them in the first modern concentration camps. This model of control through concentration would be copied by British and American authorities in their colonial holdings before becoming infamous as a central feature of Nazi Germany's anti-Semitic policies. Daniel Nemser's Infrastructures of Race argues that the spatial concentration of colonial subjects…
Resistencia de los negros en el virreinato de México (siglos XVI-XVII)
In his most recent work, Jean-Pierre Tardieu attempts to shine a light on the “social invisibility” of Africans and their resistance in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico. In previous works, Tardieu has examined a diversity of African experiences in Panama, Venezuela, and Peru. In this work, he analyzes the variety of ways that Africans resisted Spanish authorities in Mexico across the first two centuries of colonial rule. He largely succe…
Capturing the quotidian
In 1581, Spanish magistrates near Celaya investigated the murder of Andres Vasquez at the hands of his employer, the infamous Antonio de Espejo.1 While the case itself centered on the dispute that
Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries
Journal Article Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America. Get access Stuart B. Schwartz. Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2020. Pp. 184. Paper $35.00. Robert C. Schwaller Robert C. Schwaller University of Kansas, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Overlooked Places and Peoples
Sins of Excess
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