Murder in Mérida, 1792

Violence, Factions, and the Law

Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.

About The Author

Mark W. Lentz is an assistant professor of history at Utah Valley University.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (June 1, 2018)
  • Length: 328 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826359612

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Murder in Mérida is an engaging study of the local dynamics of Bourbon rule in a particularly diverse corner of the Spanish Empire, as well as an exploration of cultural, political, and socioeconomic change in late eighteenth-century Mexico.--Nathaniel Morris, Journal of Latin American Studies

A fascinating case study of an overlooked event in the history of New Spain. Scholars of the Yucatan Peninsula will find Lentz's archival research particularly rewarding.--Andrew Konove, Journal of Early American History

A fascinating case study of an overlooked event in the history of New Spain. Scholars of the Yucatan Peninsula will find Lentz's archival research particularly rewarding.--Andrew Konove, Journal of Early American History

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