Patience A Schell
Biographic Data
| ID | 121692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patience A Schell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patience A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schell |
| SIGNATURE | SCHELL P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4005-6573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
Margaret Chowning's authoritative Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 argues that, in independent Mexico, women's lay associations not only organized church activities but also created leadership roles for women members, who forged “their own form of ‘citizenship,’” becoming key to the survival of the Mexican Catholic Church in the nineteenth century (p. 3). The monograph unites a “social history of women in lay associations” with poli…
Digital Resources
Across the Spanish-speaking world, the term “Carreño” has become a cultural shorthand for good manners and refined behavior, used to frame television chat show discussions about courtesy and admonish alleged etiquette infractions. The “Carreño” in question was Venezuelan Manuel Antonio Carreño (1813–1874) who published a conduct and etiquette guide, El manual de urbanidad y buenas maneras, in 1853. This text became an almost instant bestseller ac…
Natural history values and meanings in nineteenth-century Chile
In nineteenth-century Chile, naturalists and their supporters argued that scientific work and study, including natural history, were good for individuals and society because they developed and tempered the character of their practitioners. These practitioners and boosters, Chileans, European visitors and European immigrants, made this argument in a context in which Chilean state support for natural history institutions, publications and education…
Eugenics in the Americas
Art against Dictatorship
Idols, Altars, Slippers, and Stockings
When liberal historian Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna lobbied for support to host an exhibition about Chile’s colonial past, he compared the bringing together of historical objects to the work of a natural historian, who used the fossilized, fragmented remains of a long-extinct creature to imagine its body and its habits. 2 Fragmentary remains are an apt way to describe the raw material of Chile’s heritage: the new country did not have monumental archi…
The Sociable Sciences
This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a
Expanding the Web
While evolutionary theory reshaped the framework of natural history, the Museo Nacional, and its curator, got new homes in a transformed Santiago. The government allocated the growing museum a further room, at the Universidad de Chile, splitting the museum between two sites, which was ultimately untenable. Philippi blamed the twin sites for the theft of gold artifacts, which were “the most valuable objects contained in our museum and nothing like…
New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico
Imagining la Chica Moderna
Che’s Travels
Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che's Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single …
Mexican National Identity
Social Catholicism, Modern Consumption and the Culture Wars in Postrevolutionary Mexico City
Unleashed desire for consumer goods and a modern lifestyle were among the changes that swept across Mexico after, and partially as a result of, the revolution (1910–17). Consumer culture and modernity in postrevolutionary Mexico caused anxiety as well as delight, particularly because of the changes it threatened to bring to social mores, behaviour and gender roles. Catholic social groups were among those seeking to teach Mexicans how to consume e…
Nationalizing Children Through Schools and Hygiene
On a spring morning in 1919, worshipers leaving Mexico City’s cathedral were horrified to discover the body of a little girl who had fallen to her death from the Hotel del Seminario. Yet as far as the Excélsior newspaper was concerned, the tragedy that had ended that morning had actually begun with her conception. Her mother was a prostitute who lived in the hotel and busybody guests reported that the mother neglected her child. On the day of Dom…
Capturing Chile
Nationalizing Children Through Schools and Hygiene
On a spring morning in 1919, worshipers leaving Mexico City’s cathedral were horrified to discover the body of a little girl who had fallen to her death from the Hotel del Seminario. Yet as far as the Excélsior newspaper was concerned, the tragedy that had ended that morning had actually begun with her conception. Her mother was a prostitute who lived in the hotel and busybody guests reported that the mother neglected her child. On the day of Dom…
Capturing Chile
Social Catholicism, Modern Consumption and the Culture Wars in Postrevolutionary Mexico City
Unleashed desire for consumer goods and a modern lifestyle were among the changes that swept across Mexico after, and partially as a result of, the revolution (1910–17). Consumer culture and modernity in postrevolutionary Mexico caused anxiety as well as delight, particularly because of the changes it threatened to bring to social mores, behaviour and gender roles. Catholic social groups were among those seeking to teach Mexicans how to consume e…
Capturing Chile
Nationalizing Children Through Schools and Hygiene
On a spring morning in 1919, worshipers leaving Mexico City’s cathedral were horrified to discover the body of a little girl who had fallen to her death from the Hotel del Seminario. Yet as far as the Excélsior newspaper was concerned, the tragedy that had ended that morning had actually begun with her conception. Her mother was a prostitute who lived in the hotel and busybody guests reported that the mother neglected her child. On the day of Dom…
Social Catholicism, Modern Consumption and the Culture Wars in Postrevolutionary Mexico City
Unleashed desire for consumer goods and a modern lifestyle were among the changes that swept across Mexico after, and partially as a result of, the revolution (1910–17). Consumer culture and modernity in postrevolutionary Mexico caused anxiety as well as delight, particularly because of the changes it threatened to bring to social mores, behaviour and gender roles. Catholic social groups were among those seeking to teach Mexicans how to consume e…
Mexican National Identity
Che’s Travels
Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che's Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single …
Imagining la Chica Moderna
New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico
The Sociable Sciences
This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a
Expanding the Web
While evolutionary theory reshaped the framework of natural history, the Museo Nacional, and its curator, got new homes in a transformed Santiago. The government allocated the growing museum a further room, at the Universidad de Chile, splitting the museum between two sites, which was ultimately untenable. Philippi blamed the twin sites for the theft of gold artifacts, which were “the most valuable objects contained in our museum and nothing like…
Eugenics in the Americas
Art against Dictatorship
Idols, Altars, Slippers, and Stockings
When liberal historian Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna lobbied for support to host an exhibition about Chile’s colonial past, he compared the bringing together of historical objects to the work of a natural historian, who used the fossilized, fragmented remains of a long-extinct creature to imagine its body and its habits. 2 Fragmentary remains are an apt way to describe the raw material of Chile’s heritage: the new country did not have monumental archi…
Natural history values and meanings in nineteenth-century Chile
In nineteenth-century Chile, naturalists and their supporters argued that scientific work and study, including natural history, were good for individuals and society because they developed and tempered the character of their practitioners. These practitioners and boosters, Chileans, European visitors and European immigrants, made this argument in a context in which Chilean state support for natural history institutions, publications and education…
Digital Resources
Across the Spanish-speaking world, the term “Carreño” has become a cultural shorthand for good manners and refined behavior, used to frame television chat show discussions about courtesy and admonish alleged etiquette infractions. The “Carreño” in question was Venezuelan Manuel Antonio Carreño (1813–1874) who published a conduct and etiquette guide, El manual de urbanidad y buenas maneras, in 1853. This text became an almost instant bestseller ac…
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
Margaret Chowning's authoritative Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 argues that, in independent Mexico, women's lay associations not only organized church activities but also created leadership roles for women members, who forged “their own form of ‘citizenship,’” becoming key to the survival of the Mexican Catholic Church in the nineteenth century (p. 3). The monograph unites a “social history of women in lay associations” with poli…
History (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (4 works)