In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the
lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru …

The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that
engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas …

This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations
among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of …

History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle
aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most …

On 7 May 1640, in the town of Popayán, Francisco, an enslaved Afro-criollo, 1 filed a lawsuit
against his master, Fray Diego Revelo de Chaves, a priest in the local Augustinian …

10. For Klubock's discussion of these questions, see ''Writing the History of Women and
Gender in Twentieth-Century Chile.''11. Seventy-nine criminal trial records from the years …

Women's reproduction, including conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other
physical acts of motherhood (as well as the rejection of those roles), played a critical role in …

This dissertation is a study of patriarchy in Yucatán, Mexico, during an era of liberal reform
and agricultural prosperity (1860–1915). In a society resting on debt peonage, in which the …

Two years in a row (1885 and 1886) Señora Teresa, a native and resident of Oaxaca de
Juárez, pleaded with the court to prosecute her daughter's suitors. The first time, after seeing …

Spanish American ecclesiastic and secular law granted limited rights to enslaved men and
women, allowing them to appeal before the authorities when they perceived their rights had …