Modernizing Minds in El Salvador
Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980
A History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.
Cuauhtémoc's Bones
Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico
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.
Irresistible Forces
Latin American Migration to the United States and its Effects on the South
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.
Damned Notions of Liberty
Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769
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).
The War for Mexico's West
Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Altman has undertaken the challenging task of examining the Spaniards' attempt to conquer and settle the western region of Mexico (New Galicia).
Black Mexico
Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
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.
Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
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.
True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
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.
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
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.
Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
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
Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America
Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador
The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory
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.
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches
Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
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.