DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div “Diana Taylor’s ideas, carefully etched out here to great effect, provide a new vocabulary to understand the work that ...

Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, revealing far older and more advanced cultures with a greater population than were previously thought to have existed.

"That new view, says Dillehay, will come mainly from South America - from South American sites and from freedom from the North American dogma that kept the Clovis theory dominant for so many years.

This controversial treatise focuses on the social and cultural issues involved in the invasion of the Americas by European nations.

More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall.

The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus.

After 400 years, America's oldest mystery--the Lost Colony--is solved in this remarkable & gripping work of historical detection--spinning a tale of intrigue, sabotage, & murder.

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America.

For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies.

This book examines what 'republicanism' meant to the Americans who drafted and ratified the United States Constitution, guaranteeing a 'republican form of government' to every state in the Union.