Karen D Caplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 457213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen D Caplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Caplan |
| SIGNATURE | CAPLAN K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indigenous Citizens
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms. Faced with the common challenge of incorporating new institutions into political …
Mark W. Lentz. Murder in Mérida, 1792
Murder in Mérida, 1792: Violence, Factions and the Law reconstructs a fascinating story about the assassination of a Spanish colonial official in the provincial capital of Yucatán in 1792. That year, Don Lucas de Gálvez, the highest-ranking representative of the Spanish Crown in the city, died after a violent spear attack on his carriage, after which the murderer escaped under cover of darkness. A ten-year investigation ensued. The tale is replet…
Jaime E. Rodríguez O. “We Are Now the True Spaniards”
In the Name of El Pueblo
Frances L. Ramos. Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla
Throughout the eighteenth century, the town council of the Mexican city of Puebla spent enormous amounts of money carrying out elaborate public rituals; this is the central fact of Frances L. Ramos's book. Ramos shows the reader that official ritual—celebrations of royal births, deaths, and coronations; viceregal entrances; and periodical religious celebrations—was a crucial part of the cultural and political structure of Mexico's “second city.” …
Bitter Harvest
The Legal Revolution in Town Politics
In May of 1813 the newly elected mayor of the central Yucatecan town of Nohcacab wrote an angry and frustrated letter to the Diputación Provincial, the council created the year before to administer regional affairs. Ceferino Domínguez wrote to report on a sudden burst of disorder among the indigenous population. Three leagues from the village center, a group of Maya were living in a small settlement known as San José Chac. From that base, Domíngu…
The Legal Revolution in Town Politics
In May of 1813 the newly elected mayor of the central Yucatecan town of Nohcacab wrote an angry and frustrated letter to the Diputación Provincial, the council created the year before to administer regional affairs. Ceferino Domínguez wrote to report on a sudden burst of disorder among the indigenous population. Three leagues from the village center, a group of Maya were living in a small settlement known as San José Chac. From that base, Domíngu…
The Legal Revolution in Town Politics
In May of 1813 the newly elected mayor of the central Yucatecan town of Nohcacab wrote an angry and frustrated letter to the Diputación Provincial, the council created the year before to administer regional affairs. Ceferino Domínguez wrote to report on a sudden burst of disorder among the indigenous population. Three leagues from the village center, a group of Maya were living in a small settlement known as San José Chac. From that base, Domíngu…
Bitter Harvest
In the Name of El Pueblo
Frances L. Ramos. Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla
Throughout the eighteenth century, the town council of the Mexican city of Puebla spent enormous amounts of money carrying out elaborate public rituals; this is the central fact of Frances L. Ramos's book. Ramos shows the reader that official ritual—celebrations of royal births, deaths, and coronations; viceregal entrances; and periodical religious celebrations—was a crucial part of the cultural and political structure of Mexico's “second city.” …
Jaime E. Rodríguez O. “We Are Now the True Spaniards”
Mark W. Lentz. Murder in Mérida, 1792
Murder in Mérida, 1792: Violence, Factions and the Law reconstructs a fascinating story about the assassination of a Spanish colonial official in the provincial capital of Yucatán in 1792. That year, Don Lucas de Gálvez, the highest-ranking representative of the Spanish Crown in the city, died after a violent spear attack on his carriage, after which the murderer escaped under cover of darkness. A ten-year investigation ensued. The tale is replet…
Indigenous Citizens
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms. Faced with the common challenge of incorporating new institutions into political …
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