The human tradition in colonial Latin America

Gaspar Antonio Chi: bridging the conquest of Yucatan / Matthew Restall

Don Melchior Caruarayco: a Kuraka of Cajamarca in sixteenth-century Peru / Susan E. Ramirez

Dona Isabel Sisa: a sixteenth-century Indian woman resisting gender inequalities / Ana Mara Presta

Domingos Fernandes Nobre: "Tomacauna," a go-between in sixteenth century Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf

Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard? / Noble David Cook

Ursula de Jesus: a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic / Nancy E. van Deusen

Agustina Ruiz: sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico / Zeb Tortorici

Zumbi of Palmares: challenging the Portuguese colonial order / Mary Karasch

Diego de Ocana: holy wanderer / Kenneth Mills

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: native writer and litigant in early colonial Peru / Rolena Adorno

Ana de Vega: seventeenth-century Afro-Mexican healer / Joan Bristol

Pedro de Ayarza: the purchase of whiteness / Ann Twinam

Victorina Loza: Quitena merchant in the second half of the eighteenth century / Christiana Borchart de Moreno

Jose Antonio da Silva: marriage and concubinage in colonial Brazil / Muriel S. Nazzari

Juan Barbarin: the 1795 French conspiracy in Buenos Aires / Lyman L. Johnson

Agustin Agualongo and the royalist cause in the wars of independence / Marcela Echeverri

Angela Batallas: a fight for freedom in Guayaquil / Camilla Townsend.