HISTORY / Latin America / Central America

Strike Fear in the Land

Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541

by W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz and Wendy Kramer

The Formation of Latin American Nations

From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity

by Thomas Ward

African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama

A History in Documents

by Robert C. Schwaller

“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

by W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz

Contributions by Wendy Kramer and William R. Swezey

Nahuatl Theater

Nahuatl Theater Volume 1: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico

Edited by Louise M. Burkhart and Barry D. Sell

Foreword by Miguel León-Portilla

Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico

Defining Racial Difference

by Robert C. Schwaller

War in the Land of True Peace

The Fight for Maya Sacred Places

by Brent K. S. Woodfill

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

by Aaron Pollack

Translated by Nancy T. Hancock

Bonfires of Culture

Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540

by Patricia Lopes Don

The Manuscript Hunter

Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859

by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

Edited and translated by Katia Sainson

Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán

by Rajeshwari Dutt

Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas

Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler

Afterword by Esther Pasztory

Chiapas Maya Awakening

Contemporary Poems and Short Stories

Edited and translated by Sean S. Sell

Edited by Nicolás Huet Bautista

Foreword by Marceal Méndez

Introduction by Inés Hernández-Ávila

Primeros Memoriales, Part 2

Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation

by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun

Translated by Thelma D. Sullivan

Blood on the Border

A Memoir of the Contra War

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Foreword by Margaret Randall

Ráfaga

The Life Story of a Nicaraguan Miskito Comandante

by Reynaldo Reyes Davis and J. K. Wilson

Edited by Tod S. Sloan

Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

by Scott A. J. Johnson

Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810

by Robert W. Patch

Empire on Display

San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915

by Sarah J. Moore

Politics of the Maya Court

Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period

by Sarah E. Jackson

Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology

Essays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala

Indigenous Responses to a Failing State

Edited by John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald and Walter Randolph Adams

Transcending Conquest

Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico

by Stephanie Wood

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

by Megan E. O'Neil