Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186896 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
| PRENOMES | Jorge |
| SOBRENOME | Cañizares-Esguerra |
| ASSINATURA | CAÑIZARES-ESGUERRA J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0509-8185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Radical Spanish Empire
The Interlopers
F rom P oor I ndian L ázaro to D on F elipe G uaman P oma de A yala
This article parts from the premise that the famous Andean chronicler don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, long understood as a native lord, was the indigenous commoner Lázaro. This insight, rarely acknowledged by scholars, opens new horizons. It expands our understanding of the transformations gripping Andes society at the end of the sixteenth century, which was experiencing a steady but unmistakable ‘archivalization’ in which social status became i…
U ncommon C ommoners
We demonstrate that there is almost universal historiographical consensus that Guaman Poma was an Indigenous elite, partly because all his various writings claimed he was and partly because his vast access to paper, print, and knowledge could have not possibly be accessed by a commoner. We trace many commoners in early seventeenth century Peru that, like Guaman Poma, mastered literacy, print culture, and vast knowledge, while claiming noble statu…
El Colón de Humboldt
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
Response to Rafael Sagredo Baeza’s Review of The Invention of Humboldt
In the current issue of Ler Historia, Rafael Sagredo Baeza publishes a review of The Invention of Humboldt (Routledge 2023) that resembles the one recently published in Hispanic American Historical Review by Miguel Puig-Samper. I bring up the resemblances because Sagredo Baeza and Puig-Samper have coauthored texts and clearly share a similar intellectual perspective. They single out the coeditors, Mark Thurner and I, for calling into question Hum…
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical c…
Natural Histories of Remembrance and Forgetting
While the conventional understanding within many Latin American historiographical traditions is that science went hand in hand with political liberation from the metropole, this chapter seeks to elucidate the ways in which the public sphere in both Spanish America and Brazil cultivated very different narratives and historiographies. In Spanish America, the republican public sphere aggressively set out to erase all connections between Spain, monar…
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons
Lo bello en la naturaleza
Alejandro Malaspina led the largest scientific expedition to the Spanish colonies in America and Asia, one that lasted five years (1789–94). Malaspina's two sloops, christened after James Cook's ships, were packed with cadres of naturalists, cartographers, and painters. But Malaspina's was a political expedition too. A Newtonian, Malaspina sailed off with axioms that his expedition sought to test. Could colonies of conquest be transformed into co…
Poder compartido
No matter what interpretation we use of the Spanish conquest (caused by Indigenous demographic collapse, or caused by Indigenous participation/collaboration or civil wars), the alleged outcome makes no sense. It was simply impossible for a handful of Europeans to move across an entire continent to swiftly establish a global absolutist monarchy built on the enslaving of millions of Indigenous peoples for nearly 400 years. This is a fairy tale. Exc…
Taller de la idolatría. Los manuscritos de Pablo José de Arriaga SJ
Reseña bibliográfica de José Carlos de la Puente Luna y Jimmy Martínez Céspedes (Editores), año 2021. El taller de la idolatría. Los manuscritos de Pablo José de Arriaga SJ. Lima: Biblioteca Nacional del Perú y Universidad "Antonio Ruiz de Montoya". ISBN: 978-612-4142-40-6
The Alchemy of Conquest
This book has been an intellectual adventure to read, all 600-plus pages of it. The Scientific Revolution, Ralph Bauer argues, carries a connotation of “the discovery of new worlds” in nature. In historiography, the early modern revolution in cosmology has long been connected to the Age of Discovery in cosmography. Yet the two things remain conceptually distinct. We can indict Christopher Columbus for the violence of conquest but not Galileo for …
La invención de Humboldt y la destrucción de las pirámides de La Condamine
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
American Baroque
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492–1700. Molly A. Warsh. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xviii + 276 pp. $39.95. - Volume 73 Issue 4
Idea of a New General History of North America
Reviewed by: Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico ed. by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico. By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. Edited and translated by Stafford Poole. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2015. Pp. xv, 288. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8061-4833-5.) Lorenzo Boturini is best known for having asse…
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
Reviewed by: Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama by Frances Levine Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (bio) Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama Frances Levine U of Oklahoma P, 2016, xv + 278 pages. ISBN 978-0806153360, $29.95 hardcover. Teresa Aguilera y Roche had a charmed life as a courtesan in Santa Fe, surrounded by fine silk, furniture, china, and sla…
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas
"The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College's a href=http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/centers/iajs.html>Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College /a in June 2017.In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their …
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800, by Peter B. Villella
Hundreds of historical accounts of the Acolhua, Tenochtla, Texcocan, Tepaneca, Tlaxcalan and Otomi lie buried in the colonial archives. ‘Indians’ penned most of the extant pre-colonial Mesoamerican histories in the wake of Cortés’ daring assault on Tenochtitlan. The ‘conquest’ was a process of negotiation-diplomacy through violence that reorganised the complex landscape of local inter-urban rivalries and alliances. It also generated a mountain of…
Entangled Empires
Bartolomé Inga’s mining technologies
Print culture is allegedly the cornerstone of modernity, responsible for the rise of the ‘public sphere’. The Spanish Empire throws these tenets into question. Print culture never became a major force as it would in Northern Europe. A world of manuscript production was fertile nonetheless. It was within reach for every subject to write, petition, and debate with officials and the Crown. This did not produce a public sphere in which printed books …
Speaking of Spain
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Envoi
Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment
Kelly Donahue-Wallace offers an illuminating perspective on the Enlightenment through the biography of an expert medal caster, Jerónimo Antonio Gil, whose career took him from provincial Zamora to Madrid and ultimately Mexico, where he founded the first royal academy of the arts in the New World. Had Gil lived in the seventeenth century, he would have become a painter, churning out religious canvases in his native Zamora. Had Gil moved to Madrid,…
The Atlantic in Global History
Puritan Conquistadors
This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as "exorcism" and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. These resemblances suggest that we are better off if we simply consider the Puritan colonization of New England as a continuation of Iberian models rather than a radically different colonizing experience. The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset …
The Atlantic in Global History
This reader, composed of original essays by leading authors, expands the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically. It firmly places the Atlantic within global history and the coverage expands into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays present events that formed the nations and cultures of the Atlantic region and show their global roots and how they intertwine with non-Atlantic communities of the world
Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic
Iberian Colonial Science
The Portuguese and Spanish empires were both global and long lasting. This essay focuses on colonial Spanish America, particularly on the practices of natural history. It also suggests that chivalric-epic ideologies permeated early modem epistemologies, including those of the French and the British. The essay criticizes the application of nineteenth-century models of empire to the understanding of the early modern composite monarchies in the New …
Hybrid Atlantics
Fundamental features of the early modern Atlantic – like the slave trade, the rise of experimental science and long‐distance commerce, and the proliferation of religious confessions – were transnational in character. This essay surveys recent work in the field, emphasizing emerging scholarship on the hybrid nature of the Atlantic world. Yet for hybridity to work as a useful analytical category, we need to do away with the narrative of “Northweste…
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History
Entry for "Economic strategies, European" in the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history
On Ignored Global “Scientific Revolutions”
The categories that structure the study of early modern science are organized around the epistemological liberal regime of facts, objectivity, skepticism, print culture, the public sphere, and the Republic of Letters. The regime of early-modern science in the global Spanish Monarchy is not well known because it was forged in a very different system, one of rewards and legislation in which most activities were transacted through one-on-one epistol…
Our America
Some caveats about the ‘Atlantic’ paradigm
Atlantic history is becoming increasingly fashionable. For colonial North American history in particular, this new perspective has proven genuinely liberating. It has allowed historians to escape the traditional teleological narratives of the nation. The colonial history of what would later be the United States has long been cast in rather narrow conceptual and geographical terms. Narratives exploring the vicissitudes and exploits of European set…
Idea of a New General History of North America
Reviewed by: Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico ed. by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico. By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. Edited and translated by Stafford Poole. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2015. Pp. xv, 288. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8061-4833-5.) Lorenzo Boturini is best known for having asse…
Fathoming the Ocean
Journal Article Helen M. Rozwadowski. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 276. $25.95 Get access Helen M. Rozwadowski. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 276. $25.95. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra University of Texas Austin Sea…
Renaissance Mess(tizaje)
What do modern filmmakers and artists have to contribute methodologically to the well-worn subject of the "conquest" and "discovery" of the New World? What could a study of Mexican sixteenth-century frescos by a French historian possibly have to add to current debates on "multiculturalism," cultural studies, and identity politics in the United States
La imagen científica de la vida
Los primeros pasos de la ecologia en Espana. Santos Casado de Otaola
La imagen científica de la vida
Latin American Science
(2002). Latin American Science: The Long View. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 18-22
Renaissance Mess(tizaje)
What do modern filmmakers and artists have to contribute methodologically to the well-worn subject of the "conquest" and "discovery" of the New World? What could a study of Mexican sixteenth-century frescos by a French historian possibly have to add to current debates on "multiculturalism," cultural studies, and identity politics in the United States
The Postcolonial Origins of Modernity
Picturing Tropical Nature
The “tropics” have haunted the North Atlantic imperial imagination. The foliage, fruits, birds, animals, and peoples of these regions have satiated the appetites for exotica of physicians, naturalists, painters, curiosity seekers, and the sexually shy. The local inhabitants of the tropics, to be sure, have not been passive consumers of the various representations of their lands promiscuously put in circulation by the various European and the Unit…
Some caveats about the ‘Atlantic’ paradigm
Atlantic history is becoming increasingly fashionable. For colonial North American history in particular, this new perspective has proven genuinely liberating. It has allowed historians to escape the traditional teleological narratives of the nation. The colonial history of what would later be the United States has long been cast in rather narrow conceptual and geographical terms. Narratives exploring the vicissitudes and exploits of European set…
Pueblos de Indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750-1821
Book Review| October 01 2003 Pueblos de Indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750-1821 By Dorothy Tanck de Estrada. (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 1999. 665 pp., maps, tables, bibliography, index.) Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 741–742. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-741 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vid…
The Torner Collections of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations . CD‐ROM. Pittsburgh, Pa
Natural and Moral History of the Indies. Chronicles of the New World Encounter
Book Review| July 01 2004 Natural and Moral History of the Indies. Chronicles of the New World Encounter. By José de Acosta. Edited by Jane E. Mangan, with an introduction and commentary by Walter Mignolo. Translated by Frances López-Morillas.(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xxviii + 535 pp., maps,bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.) Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Search for other works by this author on: …
Romans in a New World
Numa Pompilius, the alleged second king of Rome, reportedly received from Jupiter a magical seal, a sacred shield in the figure of an eight (the ancile), to protect the city. Eighteenth-century creoles maintained that Mexico, altera Roma, had a pelta (crescent-shaped shield) of its own. Mexico’s sacred talisman was Our Lady of Guadalupe—Domini ancilla, the servant of God—whose miraculous image could be deployed to shield Mexico from the plague. E…
Fathoming the Ocean
Journal Article Helen M. Rozwadowski. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 276. $25.95 Get access Helen M. Rozwadowski. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 276. $25.95. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra University of Texas Austin Sea…
Iberian Colonial Science
The Portuguese and Spanish empires were both global and long lasting. This essay focuses on colonial Spanish America, particularly on the practices of natural history. It also suggests that chivalric-epic ideologies permeated early modem epistemologies, including those of the French and the British. The essay criticizes the application of nineteenth-century models of empire to the understanding of the early modern composite monarchies in the New …
Nature, Empire, and Nation
This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian th…
New World, New Stars
Landscapes and Identities
Puritan Conquistadors
This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as "exorcism" and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. These resemblances suggest that we are better off if we simply consider the Puritan colonization of New England as a continuation of Iberian models rather than a radically different colonizing experience. The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset …
Entangled Histories
The Core and Peripheries of Our National Narratives
From my home in Austin, Texas, I can peer down IH-35, a congested highway that sharply divides the city in two. To the west and north stretch dozens of upper-middleclass white suburbs. To the east and south, visitors are greeted by taquerias, washaterias, and trocas (trucks) with flags. Given the many physical and linguistic barriers that keep them apart, one would be tempted to assume that these two Austins have little in common. But the economy…
Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la AméricaEpítome cronológico o Idea general del Perú
Naturalia, mirabilia & monstrosa en los imperios ibéricos (siglos XV – XIX)
Can representations of curiosities, marvels, and monstrosities shed light on the history of the global early modern period? As new societies emerged in the wake of imperial expansion, new objects and categories of naturalia, mirabilia, and monstrosa came into being as well. By and large, the literature on marvels has remained obsessively Euro-centric. For example, as the baroque predecessor of modern museums, gardens, libraries, and labs, and as …
The Spanish Letter of Columbus
As early as April 1493, when the Spanish monarchs, then holding court in Barcelona, received Columbus, back from his first voyage to “Cathay,” they decided it was time to make widely available news about the recent discoveries of the Genoese, lest the Portuguese king, whom Columbus had visited first on his way back from the New World, might feel tempted to claim the new lands in the east as his own. Agents of the crown rushed to print thousands o…
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Book Review| October 01 2009 Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660, Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 98–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543582 Cite Icon Cite Sha…
The Passage to Cosmos
Peter Hulme Laura Dassow Walls's The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America is an ambitious study both of Humboldt's writings about America and of his influence on US
Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic
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