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.