An account of the transformation of cultural assumptions affecting parental authority and children's freedom to choose marriage partners, this book traces colon

From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, th

An examination of the concept of honor as essential to both colonial Spaniards and indigenous Mexicans

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the

Winner of The Association of Black Women Historians 2020 Letitia Woods-Brown Award for the best book in African American Women’s History and the 2021 Western