Mexico, Secretaría de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra y Marina informe

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...

Narrative extends only to the close of 1828, having been left incomplete at the death of the author. -- cf. Advertencia al lector, 1 leaf at end.

Biografía muy documentada de quien fuera presidente de la Audiencia de la Nueva España y conquistador de Jalisco (1527-1538), que acabó encarcelado y deportado a España por incontables delitos de crueldad, sevicia y corrupción contra los naturales y españoles. Completan el volumen las cartas del biografiado en descargo de las acusaciones que se le hicieron.

"Concerned with the geographical definition of the intendancies and their administrative structure. Excellent maps make this work a useful tool for historical geography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.