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Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (1470D1565)
Fernando Gómez
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Description for Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (1470D1565)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
High state official and judge of the Supreme Court or the Segunda Audiencia, and later first bishop of the state of Michoacan, Vasco de Quiroga is still celebrated for the alternative community models he established for the Purepecha Indians in the Northwestern state of Michoacan in Mexico. This study offers the most complete approach to date to the writings directly attributed to this state official of the Spanish Empire and also to the scholarship about him. This work provides critical readings of Quiroga's texts including the Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Hospitals of Santa Fe de Mexico ... Read more
High state official and judge of the Supreme Court or the Segunda Audiencia, and later first bishop of the state of Michoacan, Vasco de Quiroga is still celebrated for the alternative community models he established for the Purepecha Indians in the Northwestern state of Michoacan in Mexico. This study offers the most complete approach to date to the writings directly attributed to this state official of the Spanish Empire and also to the scholarship about him. This work provides critical readings of Quiroga's texts including the Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Hospitals of Santa Fe de Mexico ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
UPA
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761819240
SKU
V9780761819240
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99-15
About Fernando Gómez
Fernando Gómez is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Literature at Stanford University.
Reviews for Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (1470D1565)
A great success of Goméz's book is its proclamation and demonstration of the fact that the utopian adjective given to Quiroga's works, as well as its growing sanctity conditions, have damaged rather than helped the published studies regarding this person and his works.
Miguel Ángel Fernández-Delgado, El Colegio de México
Utopian Studies
A great success of Goméz's ... Read more
Miguel Ángel Fernández-Delgado, El Colegio de México
Utopian Studies
A great success of Goméz's ... Read more