Mexico in the Time of Cholera
The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Origins of Macho
Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico
Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2019
A Woman, a Man, a Nation
Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina
Mariquita's and Juan Manuel's lives corresponded with the major events and processes that shaped the turbulent beginnings of the Argentine nation, many of which also shaped Latin America and the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1750-1850).
- Copyright year: 2019
Staging Frontiers
The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay
In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.
- Copyright year: 2019
A Troubled Marriage
Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas
A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule.
- Copyright year: 2020
From the Galleons to the Highlands
Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas
Students and scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the slave trade to colonial Spanish America.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Conquest of the Desert
Argentina’s Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina's most important historical periods.
- Copyright year: 2020
Gamboa's World
Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain
Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).
- Copyright year: 2021
From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going
A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Copyright year: 2022
The Age of Dissent
Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833
- Copyright year: 2023
At the Heart of the Borderlands
Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
- Copyright year: 2023
The Struggle for Natural Resources
Findings from Bolivian History
- Copyright year: 2024
Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico
Rituals, Religion, and Revenue
- Copyright year: 2024