... a sample of the impressive historical scholarship in Spain during the past quarter-century. The editors (appropriately, historians from England and Spain) have chosen 13 works covering a wide variety of topics relating to Spain’s seventeenth-century crisis (often called a depression). Subject matter...

...Chloe Ireton Abstract Hundreds of Castilian free black men and women obtained royal travel licenses to cross the Atlantic in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as black Old Christians. They settled across the Spanish Indies and developed trades as artisans, traders, sailors, healers...

...Dagmar Bechtloff From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century . By Newson Linda A. and Minchin Susie . The Atlantic World, 12 . Leiden : Brill , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary...

...Leslie S. Offutt Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley . Edited and translated by Townsend Camilla . With an essay by Lockhart James . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary...

... been limited by a lack of information concerning the merchant communities in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: who they were, where they came from, how they made their money, whom they married, what voluntary associations they joined, what offices they held, how they changed...

...Luis Martín Ethnic and Social Background of the Franciscan Friars in Seventeenth Century Mexico . By Morales Francisco O.F.M. Washington , 1973 . Academy of American Franciscan History . Monograph Series, 10 . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 166 . Cloth...

...James Alexander Robertson Biblioteca Andina . Part One: The Chroniclers, or, the Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries who treated of the pre-Hispanic History and Culture of the Andean Countries . By Means Philip Ainsworth . ( New Haven : The Connecticut Academy of Arts...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. A Mexican Savant of the Seventeenth Century . By Leonard Irving A. . ( Berkeley : The University of California Press , 1929 . Pp. x , 287 . Illus. map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 ...

... University Press 2020 History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico . Edited and translated by Amber Brian , Bradley Benton , Peter B. Villella , and Pablo García Loaeza . Norman : University of Oklahoma...

...William P. Cumming Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 The English Geographers and the Anglo-American Frontier in the Seventeenth Century . By Mood Fulmer . [ University of California Publications in Geography, Vol. VI, No. 9 .] ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University...

...Teofilo F. Ruiz The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century . Edited by Muldoon James . Philadelphia ; University of Pennsylvania Press , 1994 . Notes. Ribliography. Index. xii, 239 pp. Cloth . $32.95 . Copyright 1995...

...Susan Kellogg Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century . By Olko Justyna . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2014 . Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 492 pp. Cloth , $80.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University...

...John L. Kessell Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico . By Galgano Robert C. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2005 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 212 pp. Cloth , $32.50...

...Paul E. Lovejoy Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the Seventeenth Century . Edited by Shepherd Verene A. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2002 . Tables. Notes. Index . x , 284 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . © 2007 by Duke University...

...Pilar Latasa Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima . By Mannarelli María Emma . Translated by Evans Sidney and Dodge Meredith D. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2007 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 204...

...Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt The Comedia of Virginity: Mary and the Politics of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater . By Pérez Mirzam C. . Waco, TX : Baylor University Press , 2012 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 173 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press...

...Robert H. Jackson Conquest and Catastrophe: Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . By Barrett Elinore . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2002 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 180 pp...

... and philosophically oriented historians. In this short but expansive book, he puts forward the idea that “the realm of the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity” (p. xviii). Instead, Palti argues convincingly that the concept's referent emerged as an empirical reality in Europe during the seventeenth...