This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America—the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese col

Now featuring scholarship published since the first edition, revised lists of recommended readings that include important books published since 1988, and append

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial

This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies dur