Andrew Konove
Biographic Data
| ID | 717935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Konove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Konove |
| SIGNATURE | KONOVE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0947-4523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The Prelude to Our Dissolution”
This article examines Mexico's short-lived first experiment with paper money in the years immediately following the country's independence from Spain. Challenging the traditional explanation for the money's failure, which attributed it to the Mexican public's long-standing attachment to silver coins, it argues that the project ran aground because of its competing financial, political, and social objectives and the resistance that it encountered f…
In search of a decent coin
This article examines three eighteenth-century projects to replace shopkeeper tokens in Spanish America with copper coins minted in Spain. The proyectistas (projectors) argued that copper coins would promote commerce, alleviate poverty, and restore the king's monopoly on minting in his American possessions. They encountered opposition, however, from local officials and colonial elites and gained little traction before the outbreak of the wars for…
Mining Language
In this erudite and innovative study, Allison Bigelow traces the development of an early modern metallurgical lexicon that grew out of Iberian overseas encounters. Combining the methods of historical linguistics, literary and visual analysis, and archival research, Bigelow has produced an intellectual genealogy of the technology and terminology that shaped the Spanish and Portuguese colonial mining industries. In the process, she recovers the Afr…
Making a Modern Barrio
This article investigates an urban renewal project in Mexico City that took place between 1900 and 1903 under the leadership of the mayor Guillermo de Landa y Escandón. Unlike the efforts of Mexico’s national government, which focused on the capital’s urban core, this project sought to bring public services, including paved streets and sidewalks, water and sewer lines, and parks to the city’s marginalized periphery. In studying this campaign, thu…
Making an Urban Public
Mexico City, 1808
On September 15, 1808, more than 300 militiamen entered the royal palace in Mexico City and deposed the Spanish viceroy, José de Iturrigaray. The coup ended what John Tutino calls an unprecedented “summer of politics” in New Spain's capital. Upon learning that Napoleon had invaded Spain and sent its monarchs into exile, Iturrigaray called for a general junta of the viceroyalty's Spanish pueblos (towns) and most prominent subjects. As those events…
Street Democracy
Puebla is one of Mexico's most picturesque cities. A United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site, the city's historic center boasts an elegant sixteenth-century urban grid and some of the Western Hemisphere's finest baroque architecture. Sandra Mendiola García's new book tells the story of the men and women who once made their living on those now pristine streets. The book centers on the Unión Po…
The River People in Flood Time
The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires, by Terry Rugeley. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014. 355 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Tabasco was never Mexico's most hospitable region. Searing heat, infectious diseases, and unpredictable floodwaters were among hazards facing inhabitants of this southeastern Mexican state. But environment proved even more vexing for Tabasco's would-be conquerors. In this lively his…
On the Cheap
Upon leaving office in 1716, the Duke of Linares, the viceroy of New Spain, warned his successor of a particularly vexing issue: the question of what to do about Mexico City's Baratillo marketplace. “There is in the Plaza of Mexico,” he wrote, “a traffic prohibited by law or decree that is so problematic that ending it has been a great challenge for me, being that what is stolen [in the city] is sold there, only disguised.” Hipólito Villarroel, w…
Mining Language
In this erudite and innovative study, Allison Bigelow traces the development of an early modern metallurgical lexicon that grew out of Iberian overseas encounters. Combining the methods of historical linguistics, literary and visual analysis, and archival research, Bigelow has produced an intellectual genealogy of the technology and terminology that shaped the Spanish and Portuguese colonial mining industries. In the process, she recovers the Afr…
On the Cheap
Upon leaving office in 1716, the Duke of Linares, the viceroy of New Spain, warned his successor of a particularly vexing issue: the question of what to do about Mexico City's Baratillo marketplace. “There is in the Plaza of Mexico,” he wrote, “a traffic prohibited by law or decree that is so problematic that ending it has been a great challenge for me, being that what is stolen [in the city] is sold there, only disguised.” Hipólito Villarroel, w…
On the Cheap
Upon leaving office in 1716, the Duke of Linares, the viceroy of New Spain, warned his successor of a particularly vexing issue: the question of what to do about Mexico City's Baratillo marketplace. “There is in the Plaza of Mexico,” he wrote, “a traffic prohibited by law or decree that is so problematic that ending it has been a great challenge for me, being that what is stolen [in the city] is sold there, only disguised.” Hipólito Villarroel, w…
The River People in Flood Time
The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires, by Terry Rugeley. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014. 355 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Tabasco was never Mexico's most hospitable region. Searing heat, infectious diseases, and unpredictable floodwaters were among hazards facing inhabitants of this southeastern Mexican state. But environment proved even more vexing for Tabasco's would-be conquerors. In this lively his…
Street Democracy
Puebla is one of Mexico's most picturesque cities. A United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site, the city's historic center boasts an elegant sixteenth-century urban grid and some of the Western Hemisphere's finest baroque architecture. Sandra Mendiola García's new book tells the story of the men and women who once made their living on those now pristine streets. The book centers on the Unión Po…
Making a Modern Barrio
This article investigates an urban renewal project in Mexico City that took place between 1900 and 1903 under the leadership of the mayor Guillermo de Landa y Escandón. Unlike the efforts of Mexico’s national government, which focused on the capital’s urban core, this project sought to bring public services, including paved streets and sidewalks, water and sewer lines, and parks to the city’s marginalized periphery. In studying this campaign, thu…
Making an Urban Public
Mexico City, 1808
On September 15, 1808, more than 300 militiamen entered the royal palace in Mexico City and deposed the Spanish viceroy, José de Iturrigaray. The coup ended what John Tutino calls an unprecedented “summer of politics” in New Spain's capital. Upon learning that Napoleon had invaded Spain and sent its monarchs into exile, Iturrigaray called for a general junta of the viceroyalty's Spanish pueblos (towns) and most prominent subjects. As those events…
In search of a decent coin
This article examines three eighteenth-century projects to replace shopkeeper tokens in Spanish America with copper coins minted in Spain. The proyectistas (projectors) argued that copper coins would promote commerce, alleviate poverty, and restore the king's monopoly on minting in his American possessions. They encountered opposition, however, from local officials and colonial elites and gained little traction before the outbreak of the wars for…
Mining Language
In this erudite and innovative study, Allison Bigelow traces the development of an early modern metallurgical lexicon that grew out of Iberian overseas encounters. Combining the methods of historical linguistics, literary and visual analysis, and archival research, Bigelow has produced an intellectual genealogy of the technology and terminology that shaped the Spanish and Portuguese colonial mining industries. In the process, she recovers the Afr…
“The Prelude to Our Dissolution”
This article examines Mexico's short-lived first experiment with paper money in the years immediately following the country's independence from Spain. Challenging the traditional explanation for the money's failure, which attributed it to the Mexican public's long-standing attachment to silver coins, it argues that the project ran aground because of its competing financial, political, and social objectives and the resistance that it encountered f…
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