Emotions and daily life in colonial Mexico /edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.

Emotions and daily life in colonial Mexico /edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages). - Dialogos .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Of sadness and joy in colonial Mexico / The language of desire in colonial Mexico / "If I can't have her, no one else can": jealousy and violence in Mexico / Emotions and institutions. -- The emotions of power: love, anger, and fear, or how to rule the Spanish empire / Myth, ritual, and civic pride in the City of the Angels / Reframing a "dark passion": Bourbon morality, gambling, and the royal lottery in New Spain / Keeping and losing one's head: composure and emotional outbursts as political performance in late-colonial Mexico / Anxiety and the future at Mexican independence / Jacqueline Holler -- Linda A. Curcio-Nagy -- Sonya Lipsett-Rivera -- Alejandro Cañeque -- Frances L. Ramos -- Javier Villa-Flores -- Andrew B. Fisher -- Matthew D. O'Hara.

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.



9780826354631 9781306531054


Emotions.


Electronic Books.

F1210 / .E468 2014