This innovative work of cultural history examines the function of public rituals in colonial Mexico City. Festivals were a defining characteristic of life in th

This cultural history examines the functions of public rituals in colonial Mexico City, often totaling as many as 100 celebrations in a year.

Kelly Donahue-Wallace surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the c

Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they we

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.