Nicole von Germeten
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Historian/translator and author of DEATH IN OLD MEXICO; THE ENLIGHTENED PATROLMAN; PROFIT AND PASSION; VIOLENT DELIGHTS, VIOLENT ENDS; and BLACK BLOOD BROTHERS.
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The historiography of law enforcement focuses on the north Atlantic (especially New York/London), but Mexico City professionalized its urban street patrols before any city in the USA. The Spanish viceroys played a role in creating modern policing in this hemisphere.
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If anyone ever assigns any part of any of my books, I would love to call in to your classes to discuss!
Thanks
@jjponcevazquez
for the idea!
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Whether you love or hate everything about True Crime - this book is for you! I received codes to send out to 6 people to get this audiobook free. Let me know if you want one?
#truecrime
#Mexico
#MexicoCity
#nonfiction
#history
#LatinAmerica
#podcast
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First sighting in the wild!!! Photo provided by a kind and dedicated graduate student in
#oregonstate
history masters degree program.
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Got my copies! Beautiful book design and I’m so grateful for the support of
@ccancellaro
@cambUP_History
@CLAOSU
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Looking forward to delivering a paper Thursday at
#RMCLAS
analyzing 120 examples of violent resistance against law enforcement in 1790s Mexico City. This 1796 case is of an indigenous couple who broke a night watchman's lantern and received a harsh punishment (25 lashings).
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The fire sale continues on my book! $7 kindle and $8 paperback...... ???
#Policia
#CDMX
#Historia
#lawenforcement
#Police
#Mexico
The historiography of law enforcement focuses on the north Atlantic (especially New York/London), but Mexico City professionalized its urban street patrols before any city in the USA. The Spanish viceroys played a role in creating modern policing in this hemisphere.
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Mexican True Crime writing began on October 24, 1789, with the investigation of the murder of 11 people in a Mexico City mansion. Cuéllar fictionalized these killings in his positivist 1869 novel THE SIN OF THE CENTURY. The sin in his title was not murder, but Catholic education.
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@RogueChieftan
I agree with the helpful comments here. I am just considering if I can stand to start dating again after a break up this weekend of an 8-year relationship. I would be happy even to take a friendly walk with someone half decent.
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One Mexico City night in August of 1796, a 23-year-old Indigenous builder was arrested for public drunkenness + "mofador de los serenos hechando pito como ellos"[mocking the night watchmen with a whistle like theirs] - loose translation.....😁😁😁
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✨Hope to see you there!✨
Teaching Latin American History: Strategies, Experiments, and Experiences
Thursday, January 4, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00
Imperial B Ballroom
Hilton Union Square
Carlos S. Dimas
James Deavenport
Manuel Fontanilla
Ulices Pina
Ángela Vergara
Nicole von Germeten
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Some of my
@OregonState
@CLAOSU
history colleagues like
@xicanohistorian
were kind enough to give me for a teaching award! Of course
@existentialisnt
initiated this award, which is student-driven/nominated. This is really gratifying after 20 years teaching history here!
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My daughter and I last spring in Mexico City. My new book "DEATH IN OLD MEXICO: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Changed the History of a Nation" will be available on March 8, International Woman's day! at least that is what I read here:
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An engaging panel with a great audience at
#RMCLAS
! Thanks to
@billconnell163
for organizing. A lively discussion of court etiquette and the lights, sights, and sounds of Mexico City’s 18th-century street.
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HAHR published a really kind review of DEATH IN Old Mexico by Mark Lentz. First page of case file below.
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Grad students appreciating footnotes is a happy place for me!
And it’s from Cambridge so there are footnotes instead of endnotes 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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"Yes, Virginia, people have been resisting law enforcement since the 1790s." - photo of a Mexico City night watchmen logbook known as a "Libro de Reo."
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If you are going on a drive or a walk, here is a 12 hour entertainment to listen to and you will emerge very well informed about
#southamerica
#womenshistory
#Cartagena
#Colombia
#witchtrials
#witches
#honor
#violence
also the true story behind the
#telenovela
#siemprebruja
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Two amazing co-edited volumes, one in which I contributed a short afterword, and one soon to be under contract, prompted me revisit notes I took in Morelia 20+ years ago. So exciting to have the opportunity to return to my earliest archival work!
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Wait a minute, what is this cover????
DEATH IN OLD MEXICO, the story of Viceregal Mexico's "Crime of the Century," the brutal murder of 11 people in 1789, out on audible now!
#TrueCrime
#audiobook
@ccancellaro
@cambUP_History
#Audible
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sketch of an idea for an eighteenth-century Mexico City streetlight, part of an effort to "enlighten" New Spain's court city. "Artificial light is a poem to reasonableness, the lightbulb casts out demons, it speaks in rhymed couplets...." - Peter Straub
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#aha24
discount code works until February 6, 2024! The code is 101801, apply at checkout.
@cambUP_History
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The beautiful 38-year-old Anna Pavlova performing a Jarabe Tapatio en pointe in 1919 Mexico City, where she danced at the Teatro Principal (previously the Nuevo Coliseo, built in 1752) as well as venues where 10s of thousands attended. My preteen obsession meets my current one!
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Exciting trip and panel at Yale, where I will discuss my recent books on the origins of Mexican law enforcement and the staged and spontaneous violence of late viceregal New Spain.
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Video recreating a 1790s Mexico City nightwatchman for my
@osuecampus
class CRIME IN HISTORY. Every detail (including the costume) comes from the records of the Mexican National Archive. Script written with care, not rehearsed at all by the actor 😄😁😆😅
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Interested in the Spanish Inquisition, the history of Jews in the Americas, or the history of medicine? then you MUST visit this webpage by my stellar doctoral student
@AimeeHisey
for documents, a prosopography and a detailed timeline!
@osuecampus
@CLAOSU
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discount code flier - Kindle version releases 3/9 - paperback 3/20
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If you are interested in the first organized law enforcement patrols in the Americas - just noticed this book is on sale for $10!
#Police
#lawenforcement
#Mexico
#cdmx_oficial
#Policia
#MEXICOCITY
#History
#America
The historiography of law enforcement focuses on the north Atlantic (especially New York/London), but Mexico City professionalized its urban street patrols before any city in the USA. The Spanish viceroys played a role in creating modern policing in this hemisphere.
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Grateful for the chance to talk about my book DEATH IN OLD MEXICO at my own institution
@OregonState
yesterday as part of the Provost's Authors and Editors Recognition Series! thanks for the photo
@xicanohistorian
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I am feeling nostalgia for my dissertation era drafting my part of the intro for the volume I am co-editing with Ted Cohen on siglo XIX Afro-Mexico!
Will I ever research in Morelia again?
This photo was taken by Karen Melvin in Celaya's Franciscan archive almost 25 years ago.
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My gratitude to
@besser_ethan
and the New Books Network for a patient, thoughtful interview about my new book DEATH IN OLD MEXICO! We had the chance to discuss the shocking 1789 Mexico City aurora borealis, illustrated in José de Cuéllar's 1869 novel on these multiple murders.
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Interested in police history, labor history, even the history of street lights and drinking?
I am so incredibly grateful for this very positive first published review of ENLIGHTENED PATROLMAN by the distinguished historian of the era, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.
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Summarizing the history of 246 executions in 18th-century Mexico City brought home to me the incomprehensible violence in this society. Hearing the details read aloud underscores this bloodthirsty era. You don’t fully understand New Spain until you know this part of the story.
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document creating Mexico City's earliest form of salaried police in 1790
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Amando bien, no se ofenderá un desdén - my translation "Loving well does not Offend" or "Loving well will not cause scorn"? Written by José de Cañizares in 1721, a zarzuela performed Mexico City's viceregal palace theater in honor of King Felipe V's 50th birthday.
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This is going to be amazing!!!!
check out this page for more information, coming soon:
@liberalartsosu
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For anyone who wants an easily accessible inexpensive English version of this novel, I translated it here:
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now in paperback, and the editors
@ChadLeahy1
and
@Bibliophilenick
were charitable enough to allow me to participate!
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These beautiful dancers from an important region of origin for many Oregonians will do 2 free shows. 1 outside on campus, 1 in our public high school. no tix, no registration. Enjoy dance even if you do not have a computer/internet! Thanks so much to my college for the support!
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Anyone know a conference that would have interest in a Latin American history teaching presentation? I received funding for my online CRIME IN HISTORY class from OSU's e-campus. I was just reminded today that the award includes travel $$$ to present. I would appreciate all ideas!
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One of the best examples of the frequent popular resistance to Mexico City's first formal law enforcement - that time in 1798 when a 25-year-old indigenous collier's mule mysteriously dumped a load of coal on a night watchman sitting on the street cleaning his lantern.....
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Do not forget, you millions of consumers of True Crime in all forms, that this genre is all about reinforcing the status quo by portraying murderers as asocial, decontextualized monsters and the judiciary as heroes whose rationality "solves" in fact deeply embedded violence.
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First book published by a student whose doctoral committee I chaired! Not my region- I stepped in and made connections (and I hope some useful guidance) due to her focus on the history of sex work, which was my project at this time.
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some of what we discussed is if it is possible to "solve" a crime or if that is a True Crime myth
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New article on Cartagena love magic - if you like this fascinating topic I can also recommend a new audiobook for you!
I'm so delighted to start the New Year by announcing that my article about "love magic" is now available to readers of the Hispanic American Historical Review!
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@billconnell163
also book sighting with the "actor" who played the night watchman in this video!
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"The 'mujeres enamoradas:' Prostitution, Amancebamiento and Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Rio de la Plata" This article shows how these women were powerful agents in this region.
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@RogueChieftan
I administrate a degree called marine studies at Oregon State. I am definitely trying to make the programming and outreach focused on black indigenous and Latinx scholars and community members. I have funding available through our center for the humanities for visitors.
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@ADavilaHisey
just defended a fantastic dissertation in early modern Atlantic medical history-amazing work in challenging times. Aimee first signed up for my class in 2011, working with her all these years have been a joy for me.. Check out her work here:
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“ the humanities provide an opportunity to interview our ancestors” their texts, what they have done, good and bad, forcing us to reflect on ourselves. Inspirational words from educational leader Ben Vinson III. Listen below!
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@kfpboyar
Thanks Keegan, I hope it delivers! 🙂 I did my best to attempt a labor history, a recreation of Mexico City nightlife in the 1790s, and to show the ways that the residents of the city tried to protest/shape law enforcement.
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I’m in excellent company!!!! 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁
Will be open for business at 9 am tomorrow in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton. Booth
#502
. Some fantastic new books making their first appearance.
#AHA24
@cambUP_History
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Image from José de Cuéllar's EL PECADO DEL SIGLO (San Luis Potosí: Colegio Polimático, 1869), a fictionalized version of the Dongo massacre.
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Photo she took of what the crime scene looks like now
#truecrimecommunity
#truecrime
#crime
#MexicoCity
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@besser_ethan
here is an eyewitness description of the panic illustrated in a fictitious way above, which is meant to show a long-separated couple reuniting after the execution of their son (yes, a melodramatic novel).
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I am slow on the uptake but grateful to read so many kind words today!
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention how much I loved the way the Introduction follows the quarrelsome watchman Manuel José Bernal through his many appearences in arrest and court files as a device to introduce context and sources and to ground broader arguments.
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regulations for Mexico City's first taxpayer-funded street lights (1790)
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Death sentence by garroting for the Spaniards Aldama, Blanco, and Quintero for Dongo mansion massacre, Mexico City, 1789, followed by display of the killers' hands over the doors at the crime scene. Photo by
@ismaeltheII
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the history of frequent capital punishment in Mexico City is something I did not know about until I read "Diario de sucesos de México del alabardero José Gómez"
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Opening page for the trial of Mexico City's "crime of the century" - 1789 Dongo murders of 11 people in their home
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I’m terrible at social media/self promotion but I want to add that this book was written in the most difficult time of my adult life so far … I really appreciate all you out there who are giving it some love 💞💓💞💓💞💓
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check out this line up!!!! New
@OregonState
Center for the Humanities project, regular international film screenings in Corvallis! Super excited to liven up Corvallis's nightlife 🪩🪩🪩🪅🥳🪅🪩🪩🪩
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@RezekJoe
As a "college hearing officer" I had about 30 exchanges with students just today about AI.
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@AmericanStudier
@Verdolagaz
One of the many odd ones that I have seen in these last few weeks was a student who put this in a paper “I cannot answer that question but I can give you information on…”
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The only accessible modern retelling I have found of this story. Hopefully many podcasts in English to come on this True Crime after my book comes out next month!
🗣️YA ESTÁ EL NUEVO EPISODIO
Pasen a escucharlo en Spotify o cualquier app 🎧
El primer gran caso en México que sembró bases en la crimilogía moderna. El caso de Joaquín Dongo y 10 inocentes, ☠️💢 más un pobre perico. 🦜
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Excellent work out there complicating viceregal women's lives! Must read.
Great new article on Black women's history in colonial Oaxaca by Dr. Sabrina Smith! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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I would love to know how people translate this to the appropriate words in English! a very crude literal translation - "He told the [night watchman] to go to the shit, and [said to] the notary of the patrols [that he was] a f-ing gambling rogue."
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@aliciaandrz
as the person who has to check in on late grades for a large college, I know that many great profs face delays in grading. our registrar's office even plans for that - faculty do not know the "real" deadline because there is more leniency then is sometimes realized. we are human
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@cambUP_History
True Crime fans out there, this one might be very interesting for you, as well as for people interested in Mexican History.
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@ismaeltheII
photographer and spokesmodel ➕ historian in training! One of
@CLAOSU
finest graduates.
✨⭐️✨👨🏻🎓✨⭐️✨
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@EmoryMort
I have been listening myself because I wrote it at least 12 years ago, so I don’t remember what I wrote. It’s very enjoyable to listen to!
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Thursday @ 6:45pm, join us for a special screening of POWERLANDS, a multi-award winning doc about the displacement of Indigenous people. Followed by a discussion with director Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso,
@khankfarza
+
@hananegypt
.
Get tickets here:
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I sent out 5 codes, 1 to go - let me know and thanks to everyone who responded! Marketing is a real struggle for me so I certainly appreciate a review online to spread the word - I don't mind critical reviews, used to that!
@dgtagle
@Prof_Edwards
@nadienportugues
@jgabrielmtzs
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@ccancellaro
@cambUP_History
Thank you! And this am I just replied to the audio book contract offer! So excited about that!!!
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@Verdolagaz
Apparently turn it in just has a new ability to detect AI as well. I don’t know if every university has it but mine is starting it tomorrow.
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@SharonSaMart
@xicanohistorian
a smart engaging presentation by an up-and-coming historian, soon off to
@usc
! very happy to be a part of this project bringing historical scholarship to the lives of Oaxacan women in Oregon!
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@mbarcia24
@DrDanielleTW
I remember first meeting him when he was a young guy in the national archives in Mexico City in the 90s! We read a lot of the same documents.
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@tropigalia
@isanchezprado
I have seen so many who overreport - outright dishonesty by self-promoters. I list committees I am on, my role, which department, and when they graduated. I also list independent studies. This is really just a CV circulated internally though.
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@jgabrielmtzs
There is a case file in the AGN, a description in the November, 1789 GAZETA DE MÉXICO, a published diary entry, nota roja treatments in the 19th century, plus 2 novels in the 1860-70s. the case was quickly solved, a "success" which led writers to glorify the viceregal judiciary.
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@seeshespeak
I’m at a different academic conference, I spent 30 seconds in the bar and could not take it, tried to sleep, could not sleep! Hope you had a better trajectory.
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@javier_and
The dog in this lithograph is a romantic flourish by the author and illustrator Linati who visited Mexico for a few years in the 1820s. In truth the night watchmen in Mexico City served as dog catchers/animal control. It’s all in my book!
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