Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Rio de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. Th
Edited by Victor M. Macias-Gonzalez (history and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, U. of Wisconsin-La Crosse) and Anne Rubenstein (history, York U., Toronto, CA), this anthology is a Latin-infle
Lindo-Fuentes (history, Fordham U.) and Ching (history, Furman U.) offer a study of El Salvador's education reforms initiated by the ruling military regime in the 1960s and 1970s. The Salvadoran teach
For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potos, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from i
Even as political and economic liberalism, which viewed the enslavement of Africans and their descendents as incompatible with the liberal project, grew in Latin America and the centers of imperialism
Studies of Afro-Latin Americans cluster in Brazil and Cuba, where the largest populations have lived, and when they have been studied in other countries, their contributions have been assumed to be li
Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. "Malintzin," at least, was what th
For Chasteen, (history, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) dance speaks to collective identities even more than music, explores the "transgression" of African movements in the Latin American popular
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stabl
An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have long plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers an important new synthesis of that complex relationshi
"Important companion to items #bi 00005749#, #bi 98007394#, and #bi 00005750#. Two historians retrace Carolina's life, especially in the years following the short-lived success of Quarto de despejo (C
In 1949, a Group of Villagers and Amateur Archaeologists Dug Up what they believed to be the body of the last Aztec emperor, Cuauhtaemoc, in a remote village in the mountains of central Mexico. State
The memories of heroes are preserved the world over in place names, patriotic holidays, printed images on money and stamps, folk songs, roadside shrines, and on web sites. Understanding the origin and
The life of the black religious servant Ursula de Jesus (1604-1666) has remained one of the best-kept historical secrets of the New World. This English language translation of the diary she began in 1
Alternating historical narrative with chapters on particular leaders and the changes that occurred during their watch, Gonzales (history and Latino and Latin American studies, Northern Illinois U.) ex
