Domestic Space and Identity in Mexico City, 1700–1900

Conference on Latin American History 36
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Park Suite 1 (Sheraton New York)
Chair:
Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University
Commentator:
Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University
The Architecture and Decoration of Two Aristocratic Houses in Mexico City in the Eighteenth Century
Edith B. Couturier, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
Washing, Drying, and Ironing in Mexico City: Work, Culture, and Class Relations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Marie E. Francois, California State University Channel Islands
The Gothic Mansion of don Guillermo de Landa y Escandón: Notes on Elite Masculinity and Interior Decoration in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Víctor M. Macías-González, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Sepulcher of a Living Death? Space, Rituals, and Daily Life in Mexico’s Viceregal Palace
Christoph Rosenmüller, Middle Tennessee State University