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Taylor, William Berley was born on March 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of James Chapman and Alma Taylor.
( This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on India...)
This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. In examining the character of village uprisings, typical relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair. Landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole, and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not political reasons. Only when new Spanish encroachments threatened their lands and livelihoods did their grievances flare up in rebellion, and these occasions were numerous but brief. The author bolsters his conclusions with illuminating comparisons with other peasant societies.
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(This work is an extraordinarily rich account of the socia...)
This work is an extraordinarily rich account of the social, political, cultural, and religious relationships between parish priests and their parishioners in colonial Mexico. It explores a wide range of issues - the competing interpretations of religious dogma and beliefs, questions of practical ethics and daily behaviour, the texture of social relations in rural communities and the relationship to authority and the state. Parish priests, as agents of the state religion and as intermediaries both between parishioners and higher authorities and between the sacred and the profane, performed a pivotal role in colonial society. This book provides a social history of parish priests at work and examines the wider religious and political culture of their parishes. The book concludes by moving a step beyond the conventional termination of colonial history in 1810 to consider the famed role of parish priests as fighters and leaders in the struggle for Mexican independence.
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Taylor, William Berley was born on March 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of James Chapman and Alma Taylor.
Bachelor, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1964; Master of Arts, University of Americas, Mexico City, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1969.
Assistant professor of history, U. Colorado, Denver/Boulder, 1969-1972; associate professor of history, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1972-1977; professor of history, U. Colorado, 1977-1982; Edward F. Arnold Distinguished professor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1980; visiting professor of history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981; professor of history, Commonwealth professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1982-1993; Edmund and Louise Kahn professor of history, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1993-1998; Muriel Mekevitt Sonee professor of history, University of California, Berkeley, since 1998.
(This work is an extraordinarily rich account of the socia...)
( This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on India...)
Member American History Association (Beveridge prize 1997), Conference on Latin American History, Phi Beta Kappa (Perrine faculty award Southern Methodist U. 1998).
Married Barbara E. Tresch, June 17,1964. Children: Karin Elise, Jill Linda.