Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla

by Frances L. Ramos

Located between Mexico City and Veracruz, Puebla has been a political hub since its founding as Puebla de los Ángeles in 1531. Frances L. Ramos's dynamic and meticulously researched study exposes and explains the many (and often surprising) ways that politics and political culture were forged, tested, and demonstrated through public ceremonies in eighteenth-century Puebla, colonial Mexico's "second city." With Ramos as a guide, we are not only dazzled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521174
• ISBN13: 9780816521173
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"