...Naomi Sussman Abstract Drawing on expeditionary diaries, official correspondence, Indigenous-authored petitions, and incident reports, this article argues that between 1771 and 1783, the Quechán and “Maricopa” alliance networks controlling the Lower Colorado and Gila Rivers compelled Spanish...

..., notes, bibliography, index, illustra- tions, maps. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico. By Stephanie Wood. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii + 212 pp., preface, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, map. $34.95 cloth...

..., and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532–1825. By Kenneth J. Andrien. (Albuquerque: Univer- sity of New Mexico Press, 2001. xiii + 290 pp., preface, illustrations, bib- liography, index. $21.95 paper...

... secular Spanish officials. Sandos reduces the conflict between Serra and government officials to a clash of worldviews, of a medieval view- point versus one inspired by the Enlightment. Secular officials wanted to free individual Indians from the paternal influence of the Franciscan priests. Priests, on the...

... Spanish presence, both secu- lar and religious, in the far corners of empire. The Jesuit missions are central to her study, ‘‘transactional and tran- sitional crossroads where ethnic identities, subsistence patterns, cultural beliefs, and gender relations were forged and changed over time in a...

.... Milton, Université de Montréal Women’s Lives presents Spanish, indigenous, and mestiza women of differ- ent socioeconomic backgrounds as deft actors in the courts and the market- place during the seventeenth century, the Audiencia of Quito’s golden age. This portrayal challenges the idea of women as...

...Kimberly Gauderman American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 It Happened on the Way to the Temascal and Other Stories: Desiring the Illicit in Colonial Spanish America Kimberly Gauderman, University of New Mexico Spaniards had a lot on their minds in early Latin America: constructing...

...Victoria H. Cummins Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II. By Stafford Poole. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. x + 293 pp., glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $37.95 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews Cannibal Talk: The...

...Leslie Offutt Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State . Edited by Medrano Ethelia Ruiz and Kellogg Susan . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2011 . xvii + 264 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, tables, bibliography, index...

...Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos A major debate in the history of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala revolves around Tecum (Tecún Umán), the K'iche' captain who died in confrontation with Pedro de Alvarado, according to sixteenth-century indigenous texts. Analysis of these texts shows that Tecum's...

...Paul T. Conrad Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast . Edited by Mathers Clay , Mitchem Jeffrey M. , and Haecker Charles M. . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2013 . xii + 382 pp., preface, photo, illustrations...

...Peggy Goede Montalván Negotiated Settlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism . By Wernke Steven A. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . xix + 371 pp., figures, tables, appendix, index . $79.95 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American...

... North America, geographically from the Spanish Main including Mexico to the Arctic, all of which confounds simplification and increasingly demands more detail and analysis at almost every point. Nichols succinctly articu...

... North America, geographically from the Spanish Main including Mexico to the Arctic, all of which confounds simplification and increasingly demands more detail and analysis at almost every point. Nichols succinctly articu...

...Ignacio Gallup-Díaz Spanish officials in eastern Panamá believed that Christianized Indians would serve as surrogates for Spanish settlers or troops, and their attempts to administer the region were grounded upon establishing alliances with selected Indian leaders. At the same time, pirates and...

... competing “titles,”ostensibly written in the 1520s, to Spanish authorities in the 1690s. The titles present each community's account of the Spanish Conquest of Oaxaca and subsequent colonial events. We consider how the documents shed light on Mixtec and Nahua ethnic identity and historical memory in the...

... Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Exploration of the South East Maya Lowlands. Edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman. (Dur- ham, Duke University Press, xxiv + pp., preface, maps, illustrations, tables...