About this Series

Series Editor: Matthew Restall

Associate Editor: J. Michael Francis

This series features primary source texts on colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America, translated into English, in slim, accessible, affordable editions that also make scholarly contributions.  Most of these sources are being published in English for the first time, and represent an alternative to the traditional texts on early Latin America.  The initial focus is on the conquest period in sixteenth-century Spanish America, but subsequent volumes may include Brazil, as well as later centuries.  The series features archival documents and printed sources originally in Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and various Native American languages.  The contributing authors are historians, anthropologists, art historians, and scholars of literature.

Matthew Restall is Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University.  He is co-editor of Ethnohistory journal.

J. Michael Francis is Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies and Professor of History at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg.