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  • African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama

    A History in Documents

    Edited by Prof. Robert C. Schwaller, Ph.D. ...
    From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C. Schwaller, documents this marronage in the context of five decades of African resistance to slavery.The self-sufficiency of the Maroons, along with ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico

    Defining Racial Difference

    by Prof. Robert C. Schwaller, Ph.D. ...
    On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within thirty years of the conquest, the presence of these groups in New Spain was large enough to threaten ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Overlooked Places and Peoples

    Indigenous and African Resistance in Colonial Spanish America, 1500-1800

    Edited by Dana Velasco Murillo, Robert C. Schwaller ...
    Series series Routledge Research in New Colonial Histories of Latin America
    This book examines the hemispheric histories of overlooked peoples and places that shaped colonial Spanish America.This volume focuses on the experiences of Native peoples, Africans and Afro-descended peoples, and castas (individuals of mixed ancestry) living in regions perceived as fringe, marginal, or peripheral. It covers a comprehensive geographic range including northern Mexico, Central ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The History of the New World

    Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo

    by Girolamo Benzoni ...
    Translated by Jana Byars ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish colonies.First published in Venice in 1565, Benzoni’s book was an immediate best seller and available in at least five languages before the end of the century. It spanned the years 1541–56, providing ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

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  • Cortés and Montezuma

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    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

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