Diálogos Series

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.

On October 2, 1968, up to 700 students were killed by government authorities while protesting in Mexico City - many of them women. This analysis of the role of women in the protest movement shows how the events of 1968 shaped modern Mexican society.

A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.

The first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.

The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.

The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.