Michael M Brescia

Interests

Research

Colonial Mexico, paleography and translation, early modern print culture and libraries, Catholic Church, Nineteenth-Century Mexico and the Borderlands, U.S. Southwest, living legacies of Spanish colonial and early Mexican property law, water rights

Teaching

Mexico, Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, Comparative North America, World History, Historical Method and Research

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Brescia, M. M., & Raat, W. D. (2010).

  Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas

  . Athens: University of Georgia Press.
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  4th ed.
• Brescia, M. M., & Super, J. C. (2009).

  North America: An Introduction

  . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Chapters

• Brescia, M. M. (2022).

  La historia del futuro de la Biblioteca Palafoxiana por medio de sus fundarores. (The History of the Future of the Biblioteca Palafoxiana via its Founders)

  . In La Biblioteca Palafoxiana de la Ciudad de Puebla: Celebrando 375 anos de su fundacion y 15 anos de ser nombrada Memoria del Mundo(pp 77-99). Puebla and Oaxaca: Fundacion Manuel Toussaint, A.C., Fundacion Alfredo Harp Helu, and 1450 Ediciones.
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  Edited by Montserrat Galí Boadella
• Brescia, M. M. (2007).

  Faith in Mystery: The Transcendence of Religious Sensibilities in Colonial Mexican Art.

  . In Mysterium Fidei(pp 8-12). Los Angeles, Calif.: La Luz de Jesus Press.
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  Edited by Daniel Martin Diaz.

Journals/Publications

• Brescia, M. M. (2024).

  Spanish Property Law and North American Indigenous Peoples

  . Routledge Resources Online -- The Renaissance World, 1-10.
• Brescia, M. M. (2022).

  Introduction--Looking Behind at Arizona: A Historical Primer for an Age of Social Fracture.

  . The Smoke Signal, 110/111, 3-15.
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  Introductory Essay in the Special Issue titled, "The Long View of Arizona History," guest edited by Michael M. Brescia, for The Smoke Signal, a publication of the Tucson Corral of the Westerners.
• Brescia, M. M. (2022).

  The Long View of Arizona History

  . The Smoke Signal, 110/111.
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  I served as Guest Editor of this special issue of The Smoke Signal.
• Brescia, M. M. (2020).

  El régimen del derecho antiguo mexicano en Estados Unidos: El relato del billonario, los surfistas y el conflicto entre la propiedad privada y el acceso público a la playa.” (The Old Mexican Law Regimen in the United States: The Story of the Billionaire, Surfers, and the Conflict between Private Property and Public Beach Access.

  . Themis: Órgano de Divulgación Jurídica, 2(12), 21-26.
• Brescia, M. M. (2020).

  Libraries at the Intersection of "Las Dos Majestades" in Colonial Mexico: The Biblioteca Palafoxiana as Emblem of Change and Continuity from Habsburg to Bourbon Rule.

  . Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 45(1), 17-46.
• Brescia, M. M. (2015).

  The Spanish Element in Western Water Law: Views from Arizona

  . Western Legal History, 28(1), 81-121.
• Brescia, M. M., & Meyer, M. C. (2016).

  Natural Resources and the Law in Hispanic Arizona: The Babocomari Ranch and the Living Legacies of the Gadsden Purchase

  . Journal of the Southwest, 58(1), 29-52.
• Brescia, M. M. (2015).

  Agrarian Lifeways and Judicial Transitions for Hispanic Families in Anglo California: Sources for Legal History in the Autry National Center of the American West

  . California Legal History, 10, 387-405.
• Brescia, M. M. (2015).

  Bridging Troubled Waters: Historians, Natural Resources, and the Expert Witness Phenomenon

  . The Public Historian, 37(1), 11-24.
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  My scholarly contribution as guest editor of a special issue of the journal on the theme of historian as expert witness.
• Brescia, M. M. (2015).

  The Historian as Expert Witness.

  . The Public Historian, 37(1).
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  Guest editor of this special issue of the journal, The Public Historian.
• Brescia, M. M. (2004).

  Liturgical Expressions of Episcopal Power: Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and Tridentine Reform in Colonial Mexico.

  . The Catholic Historical Review, 90(3), 497-518.
• Brescia, M. M. (2002).

  Continental Drift or Continental Integration: Toward a Comparative History of North America.

  . World History Bulletin, 18(1), 19-22.
• Brescia, M. M. (2001).

  El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo y el patrimonio jurídico hispano del agua en el derecho estadounidense. (The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Hispanic Juridical Legacy of Water in U.S. Law)

  . Idea Viva: Gaceta de Cultura, 10, 45, 59.
• Brescia, M. M. (2000).

  Fragments of the Society of Jesus: Some Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palafoxiana.

  . Todo es Historia, 43-48.
• Brescia, M. M. (1999).

  Material and Cultural Expressions of Episcopal Authority: Tridentine Donation and the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Seventeenth-Century Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico.

  . Colonial Latin American Historical Review, 8(2), 207-227.
• Brescia, M. M., & Meyer, M. C. (1998).

  The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a Living Document: Water and Land Use Issues in Northern New Mexico.

  . New Mexico Historical Review, 73(4), 321-345.

Reviews

• Brescia, M. M. (2022. Cultura entre la muchedumbre y el rincón solitario: Hacia una aproximación integradora de lo efímero. (Culture between the Crowd and the Secluded Corner: Toward an Integrative Approach to the Ephemeral)(pp 12, no. 23: 5-8). San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
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  Review Essay
• BRESCIA, M. M. (2007.

  The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.

  (pp 96-99).

Creative Productions

• Brescia, M. M. (2023.

  Collecting and Preserving Colonial Latin American Materials Today: A Roundtable.

  . The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.
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  My English translation of a roundtable discussion moderated and edited by Alex Hidalgo and Corinna Zeltsman.
• Brescia, M. M. (2021.

  New World's Rome: Mexico City in the Age of Sor Juana.

  . Translation, published by UNAM San Antonio. San Antonio TX: UNAM San Antonio. https://www.amazon.com/NEW-WORLDS-ROME-Mexico-Juana/dp/B09LZX6W2Y/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Brescia Michael M.&qid=1637468648&sr=8-2
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  My English translation of Antonio Rubial Garcia's book on daily life in seventeenth-century Mexico City.
• Brescia, M. M., & Lueg, G. A. (2007.

  El daño que padece el bien común: castas revendedoras y los conflictos por la venta de carne en Santiago de Guatemala, 1650-1730.

  . Mesoamerica 49.
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  Spanish translation of an article written in English by Marth Few.
• Brescia, M. M. (2000.

  War and Peace with the United States.

  . The Oxford History of MexicoOxford University Press.
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  My English translation of the chapter written by Josefina Vázquez Zoraida.
• Brescia, M. M., & Petras, J. (2000.

  The FARC Faces the Empire

  . Latin American Perspectives. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x0002700508
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  My English translation of James Petras's essay in Latin American Perspectives.

Others

• Brescia, M. M. (2016, December).

  The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Nordic Countries.

  . De Gruyter Publishers.
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  I am the Language Editor of this book written by Ole Jorgen Benedictow and published by De Gruyter Publishers, headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. I edited the 400-page manuscript, which was written in English by a non-native English speaking scholar. The book is an ethnohistorical assessment of disease and demography in the Nordic Countries in light of the devastation caused by the plague or Black Death.
• Brescia, M. M. (2004, September).

  Spanish Water Law

  . Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.
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  An enyclopedia entry in a publication edited by David J. Wishart.