Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies.

Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field

Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.

Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies

This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America. It makes historiographic work available f