Barbara E. Mundy is Professor of Art History at Fordham University. She coedited Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing and Native Rule with Mary Miller, and, with Dana Leibsohn, is the author of a pioneering digital work, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820. Her first book, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas, won the Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography.
Masterful…This is a rich work that is filled with insights and
significant conclusions. Quite simply, it is a tour de force.
*Ethnohistory*
With a cartographer's sensibilities and a streetwise art
historian’s presence of mind, Mundy (Fordham Univ.) has produced a
formidable reimagining of the Indigenous landscapes that underpin
the growth of the largest metropolis in the
American hemisphere.
*Choice*
Deeply researched, insightfully conceptualized and argued, and
written in an engaging style...a book of particular importance.
*caa.reviews*
[T]his book is exceptional, poised to make an immediate and
permanent impact on the discipline of art history and beyond. The
carefully argued, eloquently written, and beautifully illustrated
text was well worth the wait. . . . Mundy's monograph exhibits the
process of academic maturation in the very best light; she presents
herself as a scholar whose sound early work provides a firm
foundation for her own midcareer fluorescence, much like the
renewal of Mexico City itself.
*Art Bulletin*
[A] highly engaging book that crosses disciplinary boundaries.
*Early American Literature*
This richly illustrated book deserves to be on the shelf of
everyone interested in Mesoamerica, Spanish colonial history, and
city planning...This tome transcends disciplines like no other,
combining maps, photographs, and exquisite reproductions of codices
and other colonial documents into an enlightening and insightful
package.
*SMRC Revista*
[Mundy's] methods are refreshingly graphic and accessible to the
reader. A visual delight, this book's ample use of high-quality
illustrations allows the audience to reference the same manuscripts
and maps consulted for study, as well as the specific visual and
textual clues upon which Mundy builds her arguments.
*Urban Island Studies*
Mundy's meticulously argued and lavishly illustrated book is a
much-needed and innovative contribution to research on pre-Hispanic
and early modern México-Tenochtitlan.
*Sixteenth Century Journal*
Mundy contributes to knowledge about the history of a
sixteenth-century city, but she also presents refined, close
readings of some of the most canonical visual images from early
colonial Mexico.
*The Historian*
Mundy's book does more than any other single study to put to rest
not only the trope of the destruction of Tenochtitlan but also any
disparagement of native inhabitants' contributions to the emergence
of Mexico City…The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico
City makes an indisputable case for the presence and impact of
native actors in the creation and management of the Viceroyalty of
New Spain's capital.
*Hispanic American Historical Review*
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