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.

Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710, but when he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain to assume control of the family's businesses. Edith Couturier uses Regla's career to address the growing social tensions of the eighteenth century in New Spain.

In this timely study of all the reasons for extreme declines in native populations in the New World after colonization by Europeans, the author questions prevalent theories that exposure to Old World diseases was the sole cause of the devastation.

Explores the dramatic colonial history of Ecuador and southern Colombia, fleshing out everyday life and individual exploits.

This volume carefully shows how Mexico institutionalized some revolutionary promises and suffered the shattering loss of others.

Examines the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in 1532 and how European and indigenous life ways became intertwined, producing a new and constantly evolving hybrid colonial order in the Andes.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

This account of the history of Mexico from Independence to the Revolution traces the struggle of common people to exert control over their everyday lives.

This new edition, revised and enlarged to take account of recently published studies as well as a rethinking of certain prevailing views, is a compelling reinterpretation of the independence era. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of underdevelopment left by the wars of independence.

Historical overview from both perspectives of the often-troubled and always uneven relationship between the United States and the nations of Latin America.

Traces the development of U.S. business interests in Latin America from the early 19th century to the present.

Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.

Robert Levine tells the story of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), Brazilian, Black, illegitimate, extremely poor, and Brazil's best-selling author upon the publication of her journals.

A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.