Images at War. Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019). SERGE GRUZINSKI, Duke UP, Durham and London 2001.

Abstract

Serge Gruzinski is one of the most interesting and innovative historians of Mexico, who pioneered the socio-cultural study of the colony's religion, heresy, magic and related popular protest. Over time, his research has expanded both spatially (he has recently been working on a study of the entire Hapsburg Empire, including Europe, the Americas and Asia) and also chronologically. (This volume, as the title shows, ranges from Columbus's landfall in the Caribbean to AD 2019 - the notional date of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel, filmed by Ridley Scott in 1982).