“Yannakakis' detailed analysis of a variety of sources—land disputes, legal petitions, idolatry
trials, indigenous pictorial histories—is a worthy addition to the recent boom in sociocultural …

The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards
had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the …

Our field [the social history of colonial Latin America] seems to have arrived at a stage where
the most important tasks all demand neither detail-shy theoreticians nor purely document …

Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of
resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate …

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents
composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of …

This book is a historical and archeological examination of the Isthmus Zapotec state, which
was established at Tehuantepec in late prehispanic times through a campaign of conquest …

At approximatety eight o'clock in the morning on the 22nd of June, 1719, Don Gaspar
Agüero de los Reyes y San Pelayo, the alcalde mayor (Spanish magistrate) of the district of …

En el siglo XVIII, mediante una rigurosa campaña de extirpación y una reforma parroquial
profunda, el obispo fray Ángel Maldonado intentó reconquistar a las comunidades …

The Yucatán, sixteenth-century Spaniards declared, was tierra enferma (infirmed land) as
the destruction of diseases regularly consumed the region. Spaniards, Mayas, Africans, and …

In a famous essay written more than twenty years ago, Bartolomé Benassar underscored the
crucial role played by the 'pedagogy of fear'as a deterrence mechanism privileged by the …