Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947. Read on... 

This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence. Read on... 

In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic. Read on... 

The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years. Read on...

Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work. Read on... 

In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide. Read on...