Whatever the framing, readers both new to and entrenched in the field will find this handbook to be a rich collection of works that will provide a conceptual and contextual foundation for years to come.
Danna Levin Rojo is professor of history at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco and the author of Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México and of the editorial board of the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM, México). She chaired the Postgraduate Program on Historiography at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and is secretary of the board of directors of the Americas Research Network.
Cynthia Radding is Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Landscapes of Power and Identity. Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic and co-editor of Borderlands in World History. Radding is president of the board of the Americas Research Network and has served on the editorial boards of Hispanic American Historical Review,American Historical Review, and The Americas and on the advisory council of the Inter-American Foundation.