18th century

Dark-Skinned and Half-Breed People in Veracruz in the 18th Century: Whiteness and Colonial Difference in New-Spain Militias

Jairo Eduardo Jiménez, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia

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Materiality as a Historiographical Scheme —Spaces, Maps and Colonial Settlements on the Patagonian Coast (18th Century)

Abstract: At the end of the 18th century, the Spanish colony devised the population plan for the Patagonian coast aiming to reaffirm its presence in the area. This essay builds upon the discussion of the “master account” Argentinean historiography has put at stake, such as the implied naturalization of State-nation borders towards the past, and the […]

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