Overlooked Places and Peoples: Indigenous and African Resistance in Colonial Spanish America, 1500-1800 - Paperback

by Dana Velasco Murillo (Editor), Robert C. Schwaller (Editor)

This book examines the hemispheric histories of overlooked peoples and places that shaped colonial Spanish America.

Author Biography

Dana Velasco Murillo is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 (2016) and co-editor of City Indians in Spain's American Empire (with Lentz and Ochoa 2012).

Robert C. Schwaller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents (2021) and Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference (2016).