Book of Donmon Teith

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reachin

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin America

Now featuring scholarship published since the first edition, revised lists of recommended readings that include important books published since 1988, and append

This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.