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Death in Old Mexico details Mexico's 'crime of the century' - a botched home invasion and the brutal murder of eleven people. An evocative history of crime, punishment and Spanish imperialism, this book is for those interested in true crime and the history and culture of Mexico.

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The Enlightened Patrolman guides readers through Mexico City’s efforts to envision and carry out modern values as viewed through the lens of early law enforcement, an accelerated process of racialization of urban populations, and burgeoning ideas of modern masculinity.

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony--colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was als...

Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this books shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for African and their descendants for over two centuries. Often organized by African women and dedicated to popular European and Af...