Matt O’Hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt O’Hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Hara |
| SIGNATURE | O’HARA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Read the Rock Face? Getting Old in the Archive of Postcolonial Mexico
Could the horrors of Spanish colonialism be resolved when Mexico became a postcolonial republic? What did liberty mean for Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of independence from Spain? In the 1830s, Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros tried to answer these questions by reading ancient symbols high on the rock face of Tianguistepetl. Espinosa's reading of the rock face led to the most aggressive prediction of Indigenous political liberation in early…
Fugitive Freedom
Reviewed by: Fugitive Freedom: The improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico by William B. Taylor Matt O'Hara Fugitive Freedom: The improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico By William B. Taylor. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2021 William Taylor is a distinguished historian of early Mexican history, whose award-winning previous work has reconstructed diverse histories from the landed estate…
Ben Vinson III. Before Mestizaje
In this fascinating and engaging book, Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, Ben Vinson III shakes up a topic long at the center of colonial Spanish American history: categories of social difference, generically labeled castas, and the hierarchies associated with them. He examines a rich collection of archival sources documenting what he calls “extreme castes.” The extreme castes stretched the limits of the so-call…
The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830
Brian Hamnett, a historian with a long and distinguished career working on late colonial and independence-era Spanish America, has written an important new book that reassesses the breakdown of the Iberian empires in the Americas. This is a topic that has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest over generations, whether one thinks of works on creole patriotism, the legal and intellectual history of constitutionalism and republicanism, or the…
How to Read the Rock Face? Getting Old in the Archive of Postcolonial Mexico
Could the horrors of Spanish colonialism be resolved when Mexico became a postcolonial republic? What did liberty mean for Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of independence from Spain? In the 1830s, Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros tried to answer these questions by reading ancient symbols high on the rock face of Tianguistepetl. Espinosa's reading of the rock face led to the most aggressive prediction of Indigenous political liberation in early…
The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830
Brian Hamnett, a historian with a long and distinguished career working on late colonial and independence-era Spanish America, has written an important new book that reassesses the breakdown of the Iberian empires in the Americas. This is a topic that has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest over generations, whether one thinks of works on creole patriotism, the legal and intellectual history of constitutionalism and republicanism, or the…
Ben Vinson III. Before Mestizaje
In this fascinating and engaging book, Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, Ben Vinson III shakes up a topic long at the center of colonial Spanish American history: categories of social difference, generically labeled castas, and the hierarchies associated with them. He examines a rich collection of archival sources documenting what he calls “extreme castes.” The extreme castes stretched the limits of the so-call…
Fugitive Freedom
Reviewed by: Fugitive Freedom: The improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico by William B. Taylor Matt O'Hara Fugitive Freedom: The improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico By William B. Taylor. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2021 William Taylor is a distinguished historian of early Mexican history, whose award-winning previous work has reconstructed diverse histories from the landed estate…
How to Read the Rock Face? Getting Old in the Archive of Postcolonial Mexico
Could the horrors of Spanish colonialism be resolved when Mexico became a postcolonial republic? What did liberty mean for Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of independence from Spain? In the 1830s, Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros tried to answer these questions by reading ancient symbols high on the rock face of Tianguistepetl. Espinosa's reading of the rock face led to the most aggressive prediction of Indigenous political liberation in early…
Archaeology (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)