Latin American Originals
New and Bestselling Books
- Baptism Through Incision
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, and Translated by Nina M. Scott - The Conquest on Trial
Carlos A. Jáuregui - Contesting Conquest
Ida Altman - The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar
Sylvia Sellers-García - Defending the Conquest
Edited by Kris Lane, and translated by d F. Johnson - Forgotten Franciscans
Martin Austin Nesvig - Gods of the Andes
Sabine Hyland - The History of the New World
Girolamo Benzoni, translated by Jana Byars, and edited by Robert C. Schwaller and Jana Byars - The Improbable Conquest
Edited by Pablo García Loaeza and Victoria L. Garrett - Indigenous Life After the Conquest
Caterina Pizzigoni and Camilla Townsend
- Invading Colombia
J. Michael Francis - Invading Guatemala
Matthew Restall and Florine Asselbergs - An Irish Rebel in New Spain
Andrea Martínez Baracs and Translated By Hank Heifetz - The Native Conquistador
Edited and translated by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Pablo García Loaeza - Of Cannibals and Kings
Neil L. Whitehead - Pandemic in Potosí
Kris Lane - To Heaven or to Hell
David Thomas Orique, O.P. - To the Shores of Chile
Mark Meuwese - Translated Christianities
Mark Z. Christensen - Violent First Contact in Venezuela
Peter Hess
About this Series
This series features primary source texts on the early history of 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 temporal focus of the series is the long conquest/colonial period from the 1490s into the nineteenth century, and its geographical focus is hemispheric. LAO volumes feature archival documents and printed sources originally in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Latin, Nahuatl, Maya, and other Indigenous American languages. The contributing authors are historians, anthropologists, art historians, geographers, and scholars of literature.
Matthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of Latin American Studies, at The Pennsylvania State University. He is an editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Editor:
Matthew Restall
Advisory Board:
Ida Altman
Mark Z. Christensen
Kris Lane
Andrea Martínez Baracs
Laura Matthew
David Thomas Orique, O.P.
Camilla Townsend
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