Peter B Villella
Biographic Data
| ID | 455632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter B Villella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter B |
| FAMILY NAME | Villella |
| SIGNATURE | VILLELLA P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8539-3824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aztec history, colonial heroes: Reimagining the Mexica-Chalca War in early New Spain
Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Journal Article Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. Get access Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Pp. 320. Cloth $32.50. Peter Villella Peter Villella US Air Force Academy, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Disputing Epidemics, Public Health, and Alternative Therapies in Latin American History
This essay reviews the following works: The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 262. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822946854.Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain. By Paula S. De Vos. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 352. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822946496.F…
Measuring the Extent and Limits of Colonial Change in Mesoamerica
This essay reviews the following works:Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. By Vera S. Candiani. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix + 376. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292744943
Indoctrination and Inclusion: New Research on Native and Mestizo Educational Institutions in Spanish America
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas
In A Troubled Marriage, Sean F. McEnroe highlights a consequential yet often overlooked undercurrent of early modern American history: the profoundly transcultural lives of some Indigenous leaders, mestizos, and Europeans who, by chance or design, found it necessary to straddle colonial cultural divisions, form alliances, and learn from one another. This included Native intermediaries who pursued the interests of their home communities within the…
Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice
Within the humanities and social sciences, there are many disciplines that, in theory, might fruitfully inform and dialogue with one another but that regularly struggle to do so. Archaeology and history both deal with the past, but by its nature the former observes the patterns that define epochs while the latter targets the particularities of individual generations and lives. Anthropology and art history, meanwhile, might investigate the same cu…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800
Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts by indigenous elites after the Spanish conquest to grandfather ancestral rights into the colonial era. By emphasizing the antiquity of their claims b…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800
Conflictos y alianzas en tiempos de cambio: Azcapotzalco, Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco (siglos XII-XVI)
In Conflictos y alianzas María Castañeda de la Paz unravels the political and dynastic histories of the Mexica and the Tepaneca, two of the largest and most powerful ancestral groups among the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of Late Postclassic and early colonial Mexico. Yet this is no simple task, given the political and ethnic complexity of the Nahua world as well as the eclectic and contradictory nature of many historical sources. Beyond archaeology,…
For So Long the Memories of Men Cannot Contradict It: Nahua Patrimonial Restorationism and the Law in Early New Spain
This article builds on recent scholarship emphasizing native contributions to Spanish American legal and political cultures to consider how Nahua leaders in early colonial Mexico influenced the construction of imperial policy vis-à-vis indigenous patrimonial lands. By examining a series of cases brought before colonial authorities in Mexico City in the 1530s, it details the efforts of certain highborn Nahuas who resisted efforts by Spanish conque…
The Last Acolhua: Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Elite Native Historiography in Early New Spain
The present article offers a thematic analysis of the lords’ discourse as a means of contextualizing and historicizing the works of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl.4 Students of the famous chronicler of Tetzcoco will recognize the parallels between his historical vision and how the natural lords of an earlier era explained and represented themselves to Spanish authorities. Like don Hernando Pimentel and his peers, Alva Ixtlilxochitl portrayed …
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three texts in context (review)
Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala
In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to operate his own shop and take on apprentices. As handling precious metals was politically and economically sensitive, such professions were by law exclusive, open only to those of proven character, standing, and reputation—qualities understood to be inherited by blood. Thus, to establish his sufficiency for the licen…
The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Book Review| January 01 2012 The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550 The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550. By Altman, Ida. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. $28.95 paper.) Peter B. Villella Peter B. Villella Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 207–209. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1464815 Cite Icon Cite…
“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico
As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried with them the racial-religious concept of “limpieza de sangre,” or blood purity, which restricted marginalized communities from exercising prestige and authority. However, the complex demographic arena of early modern America, so different from the late medieval Iberia that gave rise to the discourse, necessarily destabilized and complicated limpieza’s meanings and modes…
Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala
In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to operate his own shop and take on apprentices. As handling precious metals was politically and economically sensitive, such professions were by law exclusive, open only to those of proven character, standing, and reputation—qualities understood to be inherited by blood. Thus, to establish his sufficiency for the licen…
Conflictos y alianzas en tiempos de cambio: Azcapotzalco, Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco (siglos XII-XVI)
In Conflictos y alianzas María Castañeda de la Paz unravels the political and dynastic histories of the Mexica and the Tepaneca, two of the largest and most powerful ancestral groups among the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of Late Postclassic and early colonial Mexico. Yet this is no simple task, given the political and ethnic complexity of the Nahua world as well as the eclectic and contradictory nature of many historical sources. Beyond archaeology,…
The Last Acolhua: Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Elite Native Historiography in Early New Spain
The present article offers a thematic analysis of the lords’ discourse as a means of contextualizing and historicizing the works of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl.4 Students of the famous chronicler of Tetzcoco will recognize the parallels between his historical vision and how the natural lords of an earlier era explained and represented themselves to Spanish authorities. Like don Hernando Pimentel and his peers, Alva Ixtlilxochitl portrayed …
For So Long the Memories of Men Cannot Contradict It: Nahua Patrimonial Restorationism and the Law in Early New Spain
This article builds on recent scholarship emphasizing native contributions to Spanish American legal and political cultures to consider how Nahua leaders in early colonial Mexico influenced the construction of imperial policy vis-à-vis indigenous patrimonial lands. By examining a series of cases brought before colonial authorities in Mexico City in the 1530s, it details the efforts of certain highborn Nahuas who resisted efforts by Spanish conque…
Indoctrination and Inclusion: New Research on Native and Mestizo Educational Institutions in Spanish America
“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico
As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried with them the racial-religious concept of “limpieza de sangre,” or blood purity, which restricted marginalized communities from exercising prestige and authority. However, the complex demographic arena of early modern America, so different from the late medieval Iberia that gave rise to the discourse, necessarily destabilized and complicated limpieza’s meanings and modes…
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three texts in context (review)
Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala
In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to operate his own shop and take on apprentices. As handling precious metals was politically and economically sensitive, such professions were by law exclusive, open only to those of proven character, standing, and reputation—qualities understood to be inherited by blood. Thus, to establish his sufficiency for the licen…
The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Book Review| January 01 2012 The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550 The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550. By Altman, Ida. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. $28.95 paper.) Peter B. Villella Peter B. Villella Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 207–209. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1464815 Cite Icon Cite…
The Last Acolhua: Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Elite Native Historiography in Early New Spain
The present article offers a thematic analysis of the lords’ discourse as a means of contextualizing and historicizing the works of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl.4 Students of the famous chronicler of Tetzcoco will recognize the parallels between his historical vision and how the natural lords of an earlier era explained and represented themselves to Spanish authorities. Like don Hernando Pimentel and his peers, Alva Ixtlilxochitl portrayed …
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800
Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts by indigenous elites after the Spanish conquest to grandfather ancestral rights into the colonial era. By emphasizing the antiquity of their claims b…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800
Conflictos y alianzas en tiempos de cambio: Azcapotzalco, Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco (siglos XII-XVI)
In Conflictos y alianzas María Castañeda de la Paz unravels the political and dynastic histories of the Mexica and the Tepaneca, two of the largest and most powerful ancestral groups among the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of Late Postclassic and early colonial Mexico. Yet this is no simple task, given the political and ethnic complexity of the Nahua world as well as the eclectic and contradictory nature of many historical sources. Beyond archaeology,…
For So Long the Memories of Men Cannot Contradict It: Nahua Patrimonial Restorationism and the Law in Early New Spain
This article builds on recent scholarship emphasizing native contributions to Spanish American legal and political cultures to consider how Nahua leaders in early colonial Mexico influenced the construction of imperial policy vis-à-vis indigenous patrimonial lands. By examining a series of cases brought before colonial authorities in Mexico City in the 1530s, it details the efforts of certain highborn Nahuas who resisted efforts by Spanish conque…
Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice
Within the humanities and social sciences, there are many disciplines that, in theory, might fruitfully inform and dialogue with one another but that regularly struggle to do so. Archaeology and history both deal with the past, but by its nature the former observes the patterns that define epochs while the latter targets the particularities of individual generations and lives. Anthropology and art history, meanwhile, might investigate the same cu…
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas
In A Troubled Marriage, Sean F. McEnroe highlights a consequential yet often overlooked undercurrent of early modern American history: the profoundly transcultural lives of some Indigenous leaders, mestizos, and Europeans who, by chance or design, found it necessary to straddle colonial cultural divisions, form alliances, and learn from one another. This included Native intermediaries who pursued the interests of their home communities within the…
Disputing Epidemics, Public Health, and Alternative Therapies in Latin American History
This essay reviews the following works: The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 262. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822946854.Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain. By Paula S. De Vos. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 352. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822946496.F…
Measuring the Extent and Limits of Colonial Change in Mesoamerica
This essay reviews the following works:Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. By Vera S. Candiani. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix + 376. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292744943
Indoctrination and Inclusion: New Research on Native and Mestizo Educational Institutions in Spanish America
Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Journal Article Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. Get access Caroline Dodds Pennock. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Pp. 320. Cloth $32.50. Peter Villella Peter Villella US Air Force Academy, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Aztec history, colonial heroes: Reimagining the Mexica-Chalca War in early New Spain
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