In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating cr...

A thorough examination of the catastrophic numerical decline of the native population of Peru, fi...

Cook explains that the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans - not by ...

While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at ...

'This volume contains a wealth of detail about the conquest of Peru, revealing both the insights ...

First full-length history of the Colca Valley in southern Peru from pre-Hispanic times to the pre...

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru's southern Andes was largely isolat...

'This urban microhistory boasts an impressive cast of characters from slave to city councilman, b...

'A well-paced historical narrative illuminating the hidden recesses of private life in the two wo...

Initial translation into English of a first-person account of the 16th century conquest of Peru, ...

'Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Ger...