"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as

"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills

The global community, dependent as always on the cooperation of nation states, is gradually learning to address the serious threats to the cultural heritage of

Explores the representations of violence in colonial Nuevo Mexico as seen in history and fiction literature of the period.

Analysis of Columbus and his discovery of the New World and how it changed the distribution and mixture of life-forms and cultures.