This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the most important manufactures traded in the world market, and Britain was the foremost producer. Thanks to new data, this book demonstrates that British exports to South America were transacted at very high rates during the first decades after independence. This development was due to improvements in the packing of textiles; decreasing costs of production and introduction of free trade in Britain; falling ocean freight rates, marine insurances, and...

This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.

This is the first scholarly study of the life of the black Peruvian saint, Martin de Porres (1579-1639).

Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America.

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

This book explores colonial indigenous historical accounts to offer a new interpretation of the origins of Mexico's neo-Aztec patriotic identity.

The first English translation of the field-defining work in Brazilian studies ethnohistory by the late John M. Monteiro.

The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one of the most important cities in the prehispanic Aztec Empire. It traces the various forces that transformed the nobility from prehispanic political leaders into colonial subjects.