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Modernity, Medicine, and Technology in Mexican History

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Nicole von Germeten*
Affiliation:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States [email protected]

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Academy of American Franciscan History

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References

1 Karen Melvin, Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012), 109–110.

2 Craig Koslofsky, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 158–160.

3 Nicole von Germeten, Death in Old Mexico: How the 1789 Dongo Murders Shaped the History of a Nation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023).

4 Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022), 29–60.

5 Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman, 159–160.