Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940
The Struggle for Natural Resources
Findings from Bolivian History
At the Heart of the Borderlands
Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
The Age of Dissent
Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833
From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going
A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation.
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).
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.
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.
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.