... discussion of these contacts is arguably the most valuable contribution of his book. Spaniards sometimes found fault with the Americans’ facts or interpretations, a tendency less marked among Spanish Americans, though Lucas Alamán objected to Prescott’s use of the term “barbarous” to describe the...

...Raphael Folsom The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524 – 1550 . By Altman Ida . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xx, 340 pp. Paper, $28.95 . Copyright 2011 by...

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

...Thomas E. Sheridan Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment . By david j. weber. Western American Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 466 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Duke University Press 2007...

...Cynthia E. Milton 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Poverty and the Politics of Colonialism: “Poor Spaniards,” Their Petitions, and the Erosion of Privilege in Late Colonial Quito Cynthia E. Milton In the fi rst weeks of May 1785, several friends and long-term acquaintances came...

...Leslie S. Offutt Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands . By juliana barr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 397 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $19.95. Copyright 2008...

...Roberto Breña “We Are Now the True Spaniards”: Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824 . By Rodríguez O. Jaime E. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 497...

...Bradley Benton Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest . By Scolieri Paul A. . Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 205 pp...

...Byron Ellsworth Hamann “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala . By Lovell W. George and Lutz Christopher H. with Kramer Wendy and Swezey William R. . Civilization of the American Indian Series . Norman : University of Oklahoma...

...Enrique Lamadrid Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México . By Levin Rojo Danna A. . Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 307 pp. Cloth...

... identification of members of ethnoracial categories — indios , mestizos, mulattos, negros , and Spaniards — transformed over time and space in the Atlantic context. I argue in this article that we may be confining ourselves to a conceptual straitjacket if we limit our interpretation of terms like “indio” or...

...Peter B. Villella As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried with them the racial-religious concept of “limpieza de sangre,” or blood purity, which restricted marginalized communities from exercising prestige and authority. However, the complex demographic arena of...

... communities' interests. The archival traces of this Andean notariate oblige us to rethink our notion of the “lettered city” as an urban phenomenon centered exclusively on elite Spaniards. The helpful comments of many colleagues greatly improved this piece. I especially want to thank Hortensia Muñoz...

... culture and identity. In this way, indigenous women's dress and adornment are associated with the dramatic changes brought about by the new mercantile economy introduced by the Spaniards. Indian women who resettled in the city and gained economic success pursuing mercantile trades adopted distinctive...

... Indies-wide. Using a four-step archival methodology, this article demonstrates how scholars can match vassals' petitions to decrees. This essay then shows how legal categories such as mestizo and mulato came about through the petitions of not only Spaniards but also Indians, mestizos, and mulatos...

..., cast Spaniards as intrepid heroes tracing an inexorable path to victory, this account narrates the conquest from the viewpoint of an indigenous leader who fought alongside Cortés against the Mexica and many of his own kin, having judged this course of action the best guarantee of his own and his...

... between the former Inca capital and Lake Titicaca. In the late eighteenth cen- tury they were at the heart of the Túpac Amaru rebellion, the rebel leader being a curaca from Tinta. In examining the interactions between villagers and Spaniards, I draw special...

... the Inquisition of Spaniards and other ethnic communities in the early sixteenth century in Mexico. edward w. osowski is a professor of history at CEGEP John Abbott College in Montreal. He is coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader, forthcoming from Westview Press in 2009, and...

... to live and think much as they always had: “Studies of indigenous societies under colonial rule have shown that managed change initiated by the Spaniards occurred mainly at the corporate level. Aside from dogged efforts to eliminate polygyny, Spaniards did not attempt to reorganize the native...