Imagining identity in New Spain

race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta painting

Defiance and deference in Mexico's colonial north

indians under spanish rule in Nueva Vizcaya

Signs of the Inka Khipu

binary coding in the andean knotted-string records

Carnival and other christian festivals

folk theology and folk performance

Butterflies will burn

prosecuting sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico

The Twentieth-Century spanish american novel

Latin America in the 21st Century

challenges and solutions

Antiphon the Athenian

oratory, law, and justice in the age of the Sophists

War, women and druids

eyewitness reports and early accounts of the ancient Celts

This book draws on the firsthand observations and early accounts of classical writers to piece together a detailed portrait of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe and the British Isles. Philip Freeman groups the selections (ranging from short statements to longer treatises) by themes#war ...

Portraits of the Ptolemies

Greek kings as Egyptian pharaons

As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 ...