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Presents a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejercito espanol en la guerra separatista (1895-1898) by Josep Conangla. The English edition is based on the Spanish version edited by Joaquin Roy, who found the memoir and was given access to the Conangla family archives.

An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion. This book explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain was overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest state.

With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolome de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. This book provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas's writings. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law.

During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This book examines this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime.

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America. This book lays out the history of Iberian slavery, explores its role in the Spanish Indies, and shows how Africans and their descendants used the legal system as they established their place in society.

Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean

Provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition.

Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence.