This article considers the role of modern local history on the Anglophone Spanish American scholarship (1492-1825). Modern local history developed in the mid-twentieth century as a type of historical inquiry focused on the study of specific peoples, institutions, or processes in a defined locality. This essay identifies the topics, methodologies, and sources, employed by scholars of Spanish America, highlighting some recent examples from the viceroyalty of New Spain, specifically contemporary Mexico and Guatemala. It analyzes the appeal of this approach to ethnohistorians, scholars of indigenous peoples, as a means to reveal indigenous responses to colonial rule obscured by other approaches. It argues that modern local histories of Spanish America are a particularly important genre of the field because they complement the current movement towards global and transnational studies as they illustrate the local variations on the ground that support or complicate regional, viceregal, and transatlantic trends.

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西班牙裔美国人史学中的现代地方史

本文考虑了现代当地历史在英语西班牙语美国奖学金（1492-1825）中的作用。现代地方历史在20世纪中叶发展为一种历史探究，其重点是研究特定区域内特定民族，机构或过程。本文确定了西班牙裔美国学者采用的主题，方法论和资料来源，重点介绍了新西班牙总督府（特别是当代墨西哥和危地马拉）最近的一些例子。它分析了这种方法对民族史学家，土著人民学者的吸引力，以此作为揭示土著人对其他方法所掩盖的殖民统治的反应的一种手段。