Overlooked Places and Peoples

Dana Velasco Murillo is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 (2016) and co-editor of City Indians in Spain’s American Empire (with Lentz and Ochoa 2012).Robert C. Schwaller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents (2021) and Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference (2016).

• 1. Introduction: Filling in Overlooked Places, Magnifying Overlooked PeoplesDana Velasco Murillo 2. The Spanish Conquest of Panama and the Creation of Maroon Landscapes, 1513-1590Robert C. Schwaller 3. Inconvenient Voices in the Archives: Indios de Campana, Indios Idólatras and the Maya Dilemma of the Spanish Concept of the “Pagan Frontier,” 1565-1700 John F. Chuchiak IV 4. Native-Spanish Frontier Conflict and the Politics of Empire: Don Luis de Velasco in New Spain and PeruJohn F. Schwaller5. Taking on Sedentary Life: Reducción and the Reorganization of Chichimeca Lifeways, New Spain, 1590 – 1596Dana Velasco Murillo 6. "Free Though They Are Yanaconas": Spanish Frontier Policy and the Conflict over Indigenous Labor in the Audiencia of Charcas Chad McCutchen 7. Spanish Colonialism, The Mosquito Confederation, and Territorial Expansion in Eighteenth-Century Central America Daniel Mendiola 8. “… Usted manda en la Plaza de Cartagena…el manda en el Palenque hasta la puerta de la Media Luna….” Geographies of Freedom and the Governance of Space in Colonial Colombia Renée Soulodre-La France9. Problematizing the Peoples and Places Without HistoriographyJoaquín Rivaya-Martínez