January 31, 2024 Max Flomen
Noon Talk
The Rebel Movement in Northern New Spain: Marronage, Infiltration, and Insurrection, 1650-1700
Max Flomen, Summerfield Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History
12 noon to 1 PM
The Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU
Following the sixteenth-century Iberian invasions, an emergent rebel counterculture challenged Euro-American imperialism north of Mesoamerica. This talk will trace the development and changes within the “renegade movement” from the Great Northern Uprising to the era of the Bourbon Reforms (1680s-1780s). Embedding practices of subversion, dissidence, and confrontation within an ideology of predation, this evolving opposition movement comingled the objectives of Indigenous nations and the borderland proletariat.
Max Flomen is the Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History and is spending the academic year at the Clements Center revising his book manuscript, "Beyond Mountains: Marronage and Revolution in the Borderlands, 1550-1820” for publication. The manuscript is a history of emancipatory struggles that brought together nomadic Indigenous nations and dispossessed frontier workers Max is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, where he teaches courses on Indigenous history and Early Modern North America. A historian of the Native American West, his research interests include ethnohistory, anthropology, archaeology, and the study of slavery. Image: Prieto map detail.
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