Chapter 5
Video Resources
- This video features the beautiful architecture in the mining town Guanajuato that silver mining financed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6C6UBC27U (04:35)
- This video shows geographical, architectural, and cultural highlights of the area around Veracruz, the first town founded by Hernán Cortés and the colonial era's most important port: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PNtaDe3x8 (03:01)
- Although this video intends to show how to make barbacoa (pit-roasted goat), it also illustrates how Mexican cuisine adopted European animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6uSbLm2MSU (16:42)
- This video discusses the mythic origins of pulque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0A8FVu4DU (02:27)
Links
- This website contains images, maps, and discussion of mining and miners in colonial Mexico: http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site7/miners_and_mining_in_colonial_me.htm
- This site contains an overview and suggested bibliography of piracy in Latin America: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0018.xml
- This website discusses the sixteenth-century conflicts between Spain and England and their repercussions in Spanish America: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/adams_armada_01.shtml
- This website offers an overview of the Manila Galleons that linked Mexico, the Philippines, and China through trade: http://www.numa.net/2012/07/the-manila-galleons-treasures-for-the-queen-of-the-orient/
- This website shows why much of Mexico's silver ended up in China: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s5/s5_4.html
- This website features an interview with historian Jeffrey Pilcher regarding the history of tacos and their possible origins in mining towns: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-the-taco-come-from-81228162/?no-ist
- This Library of Congress website contains maps, documents, and drawings related to Father Eusebio Kino, who established missions in Baja California and Arizona in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/es-1/es-1-3-3.html
- This website discusses the English Dominican Thomas Gage, one of the few non-Spanish Europeans to travel to Mexico and Central America: https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/the-many-faces-of-thomas-gage/
- This website from the Milpa Project documents though photography the present-day uses and meanings of millennia-old peasant agriculture: http://www.themilpaproject.com/index.html
- This blog discusses present-day Holy Week processions by cofradías that continue colonial-era religious practices: http://mexicocooks.typepad.com/mexico_cooks/2013/03/good-friday-procession-of-silence-morelia-viernes-santo-procesi%C3%B3n-del-silencio-morelia-michoa.html\