The Spanish Crown had initially hoped to establish an orderly aristocratic society in the New Wor...

The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both in...

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic...

According to conventional wisdom, in the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal served as a model ...

In this remarkable work in Atlantic history, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra demonstrates with lavish sc...

In this remarkable work in Atlantic history, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra demonstrates with lavish sc...

'Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist histo...

The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits an...

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Te...

'Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist histo...

In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in f...