Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraEarly Modern Spanish Empire: Racial Purity of Blood vs New Ideologies of Pan-Ethnic, Ecumenical…Max Deardorff. A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668. Cambridge: Cambridge University…Apr 3Apr 3
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraHispanoamérica, Colombia, Latinoamérica, España: Un proyecto historiográfico decimonónico común…Entre 1780 y 1782 sendas rebeliones populares en Alto Perú y Nueva Granada pusieron en entredicho el control de la monarquía española sobre…Aug 18, 2023Aug 18, 2023
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraThe New History of Conquest in GuatemalaBy the time Cortes invaded Mexico, Guatemala was a land with at least six ethnic territories pitted against each other: K’iche’…Apr 18, 2023Apr 18, 2023
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraThe search for ‘essential’ beauty and the transformation of race, from skin color to the shape of…Alejandro Malaspina led the largest scientific expedition (1789–94) to the Spanish colonies in America and Asia, one that lasted five…Mar 19, 20231Mar 19, 20231
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraWhose Modernity? Spain, Inquisition, Empire, and the Quest for Certainty.Most scholars of “modernity” sustain that the Reformation and the European expansion to the Americas called into question age-old…Jun 1, 2022Jun 1, 2022
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraWhence Political Theory? Modernity and NaturePolitical theorists have long grappled with “nature” to explain the making, transformation, and destruction of human polities. Aristotle…May 8, 2022May 8, 2022
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraHorizons: A Global History of Science?Poskett’s Horizons: A Global History of Science (NY, Penguin: 2022) is a provocative new history of science. Poskett sees modern science as…Apr 3, 2022Apr 3, 2022
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraHauntology and Archives: On the Art of Forgetting and Spectral Memories.In scholastic theories of the mind, phantasms are images assembled in the brain by the senses and stored in memory. Yet phantasms can also…Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraUrban Republics and the Destruction of Ancien Regimes in Sixteenth-Century Spanish AmericaNo matter what interpretation we use of the Spanish conquest (indigenous demographic collapse, indigenous participation-collaboration-civil…Dec 13, 2021Dec 13, 2021
Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraWhose Extirpation and Inquisitions? The Making of the Modern Colonial ArchiveThe recently published Taller de Idolatrias by Jose Carlos de la Puente and Jimmy Martinez Cespedes is one of the most insightful…Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021
