Elvira Vilches
Biographic Data
| ID | 132301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elvira Vilches |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elvira |
| FAMILY NAME | Vilches |
| SIGNATURE | VILCHES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. $35. - Volume 68 Issue 1
Trade, Silver, and Print Culture in the Colonial Americas
The global reach of trade during the early modern period triggered a wave of commercial didactic publications. In the Americas the most popular commercial books, known as reducciones o cuentas del oro y de la plata, taught how to reckon the multiple varieties of unminted silver in circulation. Technical writers helped establish the conventions needed for markets to function by demonstrating skill and accuracy. Manuals typically included conversio…
Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (review)
Reviewed by: Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán Elvira Vilches Alemán, Mateo . Guzmán de Alfarache. Edición, estudio y notas de Luis Gómez Canseco . Madrid : Real Academia Española-Barcelona : Galaxia Gutenberg/Círculo de Lectores , 2012 . Pp. 1679 . ISBN 978-8-415-47269-8 . En tiempos en los que la relevancia de los clásicos se pone en duda, la Real Academia Española lanza su Biblioteca Clásica con 111 volúmenes representativos de la tradición …
Columbus's Gift
At the start of Spain's colonial enterprise, the itinerant court of Ferdinand and Isabella was the first stage where travel accounts and specimens of all kinds coalesced and where the New World "yielded wonder on top of wonder."1 In May 1493, upon returning from his first voyage, Columbus presented at the royal court in Barcelona a procession of naked Indians adorned with gold and accompanied by multicolored parrots. This spectacle previously ast…
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain
Columbus's Gift
At the start of Spain's colonial enterprise, the itinerant court of Ferdinand and Isabella was the first stage where travel accounts and specimens of all kinds coalesced and where the New World "yielded wonder on top of wonder."1 In May 1493, upon returning from his first voyage, Columbus presented at the royal court in Barcelona a procession of naked Indians adorned with gold and accompanied by multicolored parrots. This spectacle previously ast…
Trade, Silver, and Print Culture in the Colonial Americas
The global reach of trade during the early modern period triggered a wave of commercial didactic publications. In the Americas the most popular commercial books, known as reducciones o cuentas del oro y de la plata, taught how to reckon the multiple varieties of unminted silver in circulation. Technical writers helped establish the conventions needed for markets to function by demonstrating skill and accuracy. Manuals typically included conversio…
Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Columbus's Gift
At the start of Spain's colonial enterprise, the itinerant court of Ferdinand and Isabella was the first stage where travel accounts and specimens of all kinds coalesced and where the New World "yielded wonder on top of wonder."1 In May 1493, upon returning from his first voyage, Columbus presented at the royal court in Barcelona a procession of naked Indians adorned with gold and accompanied by multicolored parrots. This spectacle previously ast…
Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (review)
Reviewed by: Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán Elvira Vilches Alemán, Mateo . Guzmán de Alfarache. Edición, estudio y notas de Luis Gómez Canseco . Madrid : Real Academia Española-Barcelona : Galaxia Gutenberg/Círculo de Lectores , 2012 . Pp. 1679 . ISBN 978-8-415-47269-8 . En tiempos en los que la relevancia de los clásicos se pone en duda, la Real Academia Española lanza su Biblioteca Clásica con 111 volúmenes representativos de la tradición …
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. $35. - Volume 68 Issue 1
Trade, Silver, and Print Culture in the Colonial Americas
The global reach of trade during the early modern period triggered a wave of commercial didactic publications. In the Americas the most popular commercial books, known as reducciones o cuentas del oro y de la plata, taught how to reckon the multiple varieties of unminted silver in circulation. Technical writers helped establish the conventions needed for markets to function by demonstrating skill and accuracy. Manuals typically included conversio…
Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Early Modern Spanish Literature (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works)