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Cacicas

Cacicas

The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825

Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich

This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted—within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.
 
 

The Real Contra War

The Real Contra War

Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua

by Timothy C. Brown

Relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primary sources, Brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the Contras, debunking most of what has been written about the movement’s leaders, origins, aims, and foreign support.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Interpreting the Ancient Maya

by Char Solomon

Born in Siberia during a turbulent period in Russian history, Tatiana Proskouriakoff came to America during World War I. Proskouriakoff excelled in art and completed a degree in architecture. She entered the field of Mesoamerican archaeology in the mid-1930s as a draftsperson and artist for a University of Pennsylvania archaeological project in the Petén rainforest of Guatemala. By the end of her life, she had become one of the premier scholars of Mayan civilization.

The Formation of Latin American Nations

The Formation of Latin American Nations

From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity

by Thomas Ward

This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European colonialism—and only then moves on to the sixteenth-century Spanish arrival and its impact.
 

Codex Chimalpahin

Codex Chimalpahin

Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 2

by don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin

Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder

Volume Two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive period. Included are the Exercicio quotidiano of Sahagun, for which Chimalpahin was the copyist, some unsigned Nahuatl materials, and a letter by Juan de San Antonio of Texcoco as well as a store of information about Nahua women, religion, ritual, concepts of conquest, and relations with Europeans.

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya

A Biography

by Ian Graham

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

In Place of Gods and Kings

In Place of Gods and Kings

Authorship and Identity in the Relación de Michoacán

by Cynthia L. Stone

In Place of Gods and Kings presents a new reading of an important manuscript that has long been considered the foremost colonial-era source for information related to the indigenous inhabitants of the Mexican state of Michoacán.

Violence and Crime in Latin America

Violence and Crime in Latin America

Representations and Politics

Edited by Gema Santamaría and David Carey

Preface by Cecilia Menjívar

Epilogue by Diane E Davis

Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Codex Chimalpahin

Codex Chimalpahin

Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 1

by don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin

Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder

Volume 1 of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extended period.

Framing the Sacred

Framing the Sacred

The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico

by Eleanor Wake

With more than 200 illustrations, including 24 in color, Framing the Sacred is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.

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