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The Inertia of Clio: The Social History of Colonial Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Marcello Carmagnani
Marcello Carmagnani*
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University of Turin
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This article represents an attempt to understand the changes that have taken place in the traditional vision of colonial society in New Spain as shaped by past historiography, drawing on works published between 1970 and 1981. This essay was not conceived as a bibliographic summary that would examine themes, review hypotheses, and evaluate the sources used by different authors. Instead, my analysis will give greater importance to the topics that have captured the attention of scholars than to their published works, it will emphasize the scientific community rather than particular scholars, and it will focus more on those themes that in my view characterize the social processes of New Spain than on the central themes of current historiography.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 149 - 166
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Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

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Translation was made possible by funds from the Tinker Foundation.

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