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The third and final volume of Constitutional Documents of Mexico 1814-1849 contains the constitutions of 28 individual Mexican states, as well as their draft constitutions and amendments.

Constitutions --- Constitutional law --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional History. --- Latin American History. --- Mexican History / 19th Century.

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Mexico --- Mexican history --- legends --- mythology --- ancient civilizations --- spirituality --- pre-Columbian Mexico --- Ancient America --- the Myth of Emergence --- Indian stories --- Jung --- Buddhism --- symbolism --- cataclysm --- prophecies

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Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents—magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others—who knew little and cared less about the goals of their superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Through a case study of the province of Michoacán in western Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses on the prosaic agents of colonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting view of the complexities of making empire at the ground level. Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the archives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of Michoacán were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened by the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and thoroughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His findings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which asserts that the royal state and the institutional church colluded to produce a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig finds that Michoacán—typical of many frontier provinces of the empire—became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical control and formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law, jurisprudence, and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of decentralized rule.

Inquisition --- Mexico --- New Spain --- Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) --- History --- History. --- Church history. --- colonial Mexico, Michoacán, Spanish empire, colonialism, Indigenous Mexico, Latin American history, history of Mexico, Mexican history, colonial history.

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Arreola, Juan José --- Rulfo, Juan --- Fuentes, Carlos --- Short stories, Mexican --- Mexican fiction --- History and criticism --- Arreola, Juan José --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mexico --- In literature --- Short stories, Mexican - History and criticism --- Mexican fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Rulfo, Juan - Criticism and interpretation --- Arreola, Juan José - Criticism and interpretation --- Fuentes, Carlos - Criticism and interpretation --- Mexico - In literature

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En contraste con la normativa lectura criollista y proto-nacionalista de Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud analiza el texto de Bernardo de Balbuena en un contexto atlántico y propone interpretarlo como una defensa del derecho natural de los inmigrantes peninsulares a gobernar la Nueva España.
Además de ofrecer una actualizada y documentada biografía de Balbuena que nos recuerda sus lazos con la península ibérica, el libro reconstruye las olvidadas tradiciones retórica, científica, geopolítica y económica que articulan Grandeza mexicana. Gracias a ello, la obra presenta este elogio de la capital virreinal como un posicionamiento político en favor de peninsulares como el propio Balbuena, supuestos poseedores de las virtudes morales e intelectuales necesarias para gobernar espiritual y temporalmente el virreinato novohispano, y en desmedro de los moralmente deficientes criollos y los salvajes indígenas.
El imperio de la virtud nos invita a reconsiderar el lugar que Balbuena y Grandeza mexicana ocupan en el acervo cultural mexicano.

Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi es docente e investigador de Estudios Hispánicos en el College of William and Mary.

Against the normative proto-Mexican and criollista reading of Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud positions Bernardo de Balbuena's work in an Atlantic context and hence interprets it as a political assertion of the natural right of peninsular émigrés to rule New Spain.
The book offers an updated biography of Balbuena that reminds us of his ties to the Iberian Peninsula, and traces the pre-modern rhetorical, scientific, geopolitical, and economic paradigms upon which Grandeza mexicana is designed. Thus, the work analyzes Balbuena's encomium of Mexico City as a political prise de position in favor of peninsular émigrés like Balbuena himself, who are allegedly endowed with the moral and intellectual virtues needed to direct the spiritual and temporal life of the viceroyalty, and against the morally deficient criollos and the barbaric Indians.
El imperio de la virtud invites us to reassess the role that Balbuena and Grandeza mexicana play in the cultural history of present-day Mexico.

Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary.

Empirical theology --- Theology, Empirical --- Empiricism --- Theology, Doctrinal --- History of doctrines. --- Balbuena, Bernardo de, --- Spanish poetry --- History and criticism. --- 18th century. --- Hispanic Studies. --- Iberian Peninsula. --- Literary criticism. --- Mexican History. --- Mexican Literature. --- Mexico City. --- Modern literature. --- New Spain. --- Spanish America. --- Spanish History. --- Spanish Literature. --- Spanish Poetry. --- Spanish Prose. --- Spanish culture.