Argues that laywomen's interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico's religious culture.

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial c

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democr

A social history of books in Spanish America which traces the reach of reading material in late colonial Peru.

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the