Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1995 he has published some sixty articles and essays and twenty books. He has received fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Leverhulme Trust in the UK. He edited Ethnohistory journal for a decade, and is now co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.
List of maps and in focus boxes
Acknowledgements
Preface: the colonial crucible
Part I. Before the Great Encounter: 1. Native America
2. Castile and Portugal
3. Atlantic Africa
Part II. The Long Conquest: 4. The Iberian imperial dawn
5. Native American empires
6. The chain of conquest
7. The incomplete conquest
Part III. The Colonial Middle: 8. Native communities
9. Black communities
10. The religious resistance
11. Deviancy, discipline, and identity
12. Daily life in the city and country
Part IV. The Age of Change: 13. War and reform
14. Late-colonial life
15. Independence
Conclusion
Index.
List of maps and in focus boxes; Acknowledgements; Preface: the colonial crucible; Part I. Before the Great Encounter: 1. Native America; 2. Castile and Portugal; 3. Atlantic Africa; Part II. The Long Conquest: 4. The Iberian imperial dawn; 5. Native American empires; 6. The chain of conquest; 7. The incomplete conquest; Part III. The Colonial Middle: 8. Native communities; 9. Black communities; 10. The religious resistance; 11. Deviancy, discipline, and identity; 12. Daily life in the city and country; Part IV. The Age of Change: 13. War and reform; 14. Late-colonial life; 15. Independence; Conclusion; Index.
