Fundadores de Montemorelos

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...

Copy of reports rendered by Bishop Tamarón of Durango in compliance with royal decrees regarding his inspection of his see, which comprised the present territory of Durango, Chihuahua, parts of other Mexican states, and New Mexico. Consists of an introduction and three parts. Printed as Demostración del vastísimo obispado de la Nueva Vizcaya-1765 (ed. by Vito Alessio Robles, Mexico, 1937) Includes a transcript of nearly all of Part I and the itineraries of Part II in the handwriting of Alphonse Pinart (M-M 232 A).

Un estudio económico de las regiones geográficas presupone el estudio de la población consumidora: producción y consumo necesitan que se establezcan relaciones de comercio, de información, de inversión, las cuales se localizan en lugares precisos. El autor hace una lectura crítica de los trabajos consagrados a la cuestión y trata de entresacar de ellos, así como de una observación directa, lo que significan las regiones y la vida de relación que se organiza en su interior.

"Excellent study of the Dominican Order in the 16th century. Avoids a chronological account giving the reader instead a methodical analysis of the institutional, social, and economic organization of the order. To the prototypes of the urban and the rural convents, Pita Moreda adds a balanced assessment of the missionary activities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.