Explores the representations of violence in colonial Nuevo Mexico as seen in history and fiction literature of the period.

"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The autho

The Forgotten Diaspora explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest deployed a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct

This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 t

Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the