Project: "Currency and bimetallism in historical perspective. The Mexican monetary system during the first half of the 19th century"

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Supervisor:
Dr. Antonio Ibarra, UNAM

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The project consists of a historical approach to the currency, understanding it as a social, cultural, economic and political device during the transition from New Spain to independent Mexico. Special attention will be paid to the role of currency in the construction of the new republican reality of independent Mexico, as well as to the plans that the new power groups designed around the silver peso inherited from the viceregal past. Within the framework of a postdoctoral stay at FE UNAM, the project will result in two publishable products. One refers to the study of fractional currency during the beginnings of independent life in Mexico to identify the political messages that the first federal republic tried to spread. The second product will be related to the study of the adoption of the decimal metric system to "modernize" the Mexican currency in the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century.

Book 

Fernández Castillo, Ricardo: "The formation of the Mexican monetary system during the transition from New Spain to independent Mexico." AHILA, FE UNAM, Colmex.

Chapters

Fernández Castillo, Ricardo (2021): “Theory and teaching of history. Challenges and strategies in the face of successive changes in educational models in Mexico ”, Historia Magistra Vitae Est: Current discussions of history and education, Jesús Domínguez Cardiel, Édgar Fernández Álvarez and Salvador Lira (cords.), Cartagena, Colombia, Institution Universitaria Mayor de Cartagena, pp. 23-46.

Fernández Castillo, Ricardo (2021): “Diplomat or political conspirator? The plenipotentiary Joel Roberts Poinsett and his presence in the First Federal Republic of Mexico, 1822-1829”, Diana Marisol Hernández Suárez, Luis Aguirre y Carolin Loysa (cords.) Rethinking global intertwining from Latin America, Berlin, Edition Tranvía, Verlag Walter Frey, 2019.