Matthew Restall

About The Author

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.

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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