Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the
Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was …

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of
Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a …

This article explains two unique aspects of the New World Spanish empire: its production of
hundreds of thousands of royal decrees, and the unique categories that these edicts …

10. Matthew,“Facing East”; Mira Caballos, Indios y mestizos; Reséndez, The Other Slavery;
Van Deusen,“Coming to Castile.” 11. Don Baltasar Zaman prided himself on having …

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to
the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations …

Legal history, as developed in nineteenth-century continental Europe, has a national
tradition, but also a transnational past. During the last two decades, however, a new field of …

Since the 1990s, the attempts to supplement the conventional, overwhelmingly national
historiographical traditions via the introduction of a global dimension have been on the rise …

On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo, or city council,
petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any …

A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings
(remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American images representing the outcome of …

The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped
the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and …