Matthew Restall

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Matthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Restall is also the author of Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (coauthor), Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, The Maya World, and The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán.

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Books by Matthew Restall

Black Mexico

Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

Edited by Ben Vinson and Matthew Restall

This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.

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Beyond Black and Red

African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America

Edited by Matthew Restall

The first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.

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