A Flock Divided

O’Hara, Matthew D.

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“…157 Undoubtably, Spanish-Indian separation was the goal of many royal and viceregal laws, yet scholars have associated segregation with the two republics far too forcefully. 158 As I have suggested above, even within the narrow space of writings dealing conceptually with republics, neither the crown nor its vassals were always of one mind about how to proceed with such an undertaking. Congregation of Indians into towns was not an enterprise dedicated exclusively to segregation, and it often had the opposite finality: to bring Indians closer to Spanish administrative and ecclesiastical control.…”

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TheTwo, theOne, theMany, theNone:Rethinking the Republics of Spaniards and Indians in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies

Masters¹

2021

The Americas

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For a half-century, the historiography on Spanish Habsburg rule suggested that the crown envisioned Indies society as best divided into two segregated sociolegal groups: the republic of the Spaniards and the republic of the Indians. This model was popularized by the eminent mid twentieth century Swedish historian Magnus Mörner and has since become a foundational concept in the field. However, using extensive archival evidence, this article suggests that the Mörner Thesis of the Two Republics is flawed. Historicizing sixteenth-century uses of the concept of the republic, it finds that contemporaries conceived of a complex social order in which many political communities such as municipalities and groups of petitioners could overlap within larger meta-republics, such as the Indies republic and the Christian faith-republic. It then turns to subjects’ uses of the two republics, noting that this conceptual duality appeared rarely in the petitions of Spanish officials, commoners, Indians, Afro-descendants, and mestizos, and was also rare in royal and viceregal legislation. Moreover, this binary most often served to suggest Spaniards’ and Indians’ common ground. The article then reflects on other approaches to understanding the Indies’ Spanish-Indian binary, the place of non-Spanish, non-Indian vassals within republic-thinking, and the staggering complexity of Indies laws, categories, and social interactions.

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Section: Beyond the Two Republicsmentioning

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TheTwo, theOne, theMany, theNone:Rethinking the Republics of Spaniards and Indians in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies

Masters¹

2021

The Americas

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“…50 Y Matthew O'Hara abordó la resistencia popular en los barrios de la ciudad de México a los esfuerzos borbónicos por reformar la religiosidad popular allí. 51 No descubrieron estos estudios una prestanza tan grande de la población indígena hacia la sublevación popular al estilo de Cuzco, antes de la convocatoria a la rebelión hecha en 1810 por el cura Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, pero Taylor insistió en las tirantes relaciones entre el clero y los indígenas, salvo cuando los párrocos lograron convencer a la feligresía de que estaban a su servicio. Cuando se daba ese paso, los curas podían ejercer un poder espiritual e incluso político sobre los habitantes.…”

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Madres, pecadoras y obedientes: la formación religiosa de las poblanas en la primera mitad del siglo XIX mexicano

Ibarra

2021

Hist. Caribe

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La creación de las culturas escolares femeninas del siglo XIX mexicano se realizó mediante los preceptos pastorales y de gobernanza; las guerras internas e intervencionistas favorecieron discursos de Estado y clericales que optaron por brindar un papel determinante a las poblanas, debido a que la instrucción formal e informal se vio envuelta en una doble exigencia para las mujeres: aspirar a construirse en el estereotipo de la Virgen Concepcionista —la Nueva Eva—, que podía ser pecadora, pero, al mismo tiempo, era susceptible de redimirse mediante la maternidad e instruirse en la escuela formal, para ser siervas temerosas y obedientes.

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Donald Fithian Stevens, Mexico in the Time of Cholera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. ix + 315, $34.85, paperback, ISBN: 9780826360557.

Jaffary

2020

Med. Hist.

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A Flock Divided

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TheTwo, theOne, theMany, theNone:Rethinking the Republics of Spaniards and Indians in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies

TheTwo, theOne, theMany, theNone:Rethinking the Republics of Spaniards and Indians in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies

Madres, pecadoras y obedientes: la formación religiosa de las poblanas en la primera mitad del siglo XIX mexicano

Donald Fithian Stevens, Mexico in the Time of Cholera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. ix + 315, $34.85, paperback, ISBN: 9780826360557.

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