Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.

In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.

This study examines the phenomenon of the impact of Latin American migration on the southeastern United States, a region that now has the nation's fastest growing immigrant population.

This study explores the lived experience of slavery from the perspective of slaves themselves to reveal how the enslaved may have conceptualized and contested their subordinated social positions in New Spain's middle colonial period (roughly 1630-1760s).

Altman has undertaken the challenging task of examining the Spaniards' attempt to conquer and settle the western region of Mexico (New Galicia).

This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.

In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.

This edited volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.

Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

The authors provide the first systematic study of the infamous massacre now regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history.

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.

On October 2, 1968, up to 700 students were killed by government authorities while protesting in Mexico City - many of them women. This analysis of the role of women in the protest movement shows how the events of 1968 shaped modern Mexican society.

A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.

The first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.

The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.

The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.

The impact of slavery in 19th century Brazil is examined through the life of one typical slave owner who was also a former slave.

This translation of part of the diary of a 17th century Peruvian mystic includes the convent life of slaves and former slaves and baroque Catholic spiritual experiences from the perspective of a woman of color.

This cultural history examines the functions of public rituals in colonial Mexico City, often totaling as many as 100 celebrations in a year.

John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.