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Frances L. started following the work of Karoline Cook, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities .
Faculty Member, History
College of Arts and Sciences
About
Research
My research has largely focused on the political culture of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puebla de los Ángeles, Mexico, the viceroyalty of New Spain's “second city” in prestige and importance. My book manuscript "Displaying Political Culture: Eighteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles" analyzes how spectacular public ceremonies reinforced allegiances to city, empire, and Church, while also forging, testing, and demonstrating understandings regarding power and politics. My book will be released by the University of Arizona Press in the fall of 2012.
Recently, I have begun two new research projects. One focuses on the impact of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714) in New Spain. Specifically, I analyze how after almost two centuries of Habsburg rule, royal officials attempted to "sell" a new ruling dynasty to Mexico City's diverse population, but with mixed results. As many accusations of disloyalty illustrate, long-nurtured allegiances were not easily set aside with the change in ruling dynasty.
My other project focuses on a ring of document forgers in mid eighteenth-century Mexico. I intend to use documentation related to this case as the foundation for a lively microhistory that should be of interest to general readers and undergraduates alike.
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