Books by Robert C. Schwaller

Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward.

Highlights various aspects of the use of Nahuatl as a lingua franca during the colonial period. By emphasizing interethnic communication in largely quotidian contexts, this issue examines the colonial language and investigates the many ways in which Nahuatl shaped the lives of all inhabitants of New Spain.