Books in the Latin American Originals series

The first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolome de Las Casas's 1552 Confesionario. Explores its history and its guidelines for confessors administering the sacrament of confession to conquistadores, encomenderos, slaveholders, settlers, and others who had harmed indigenous peoples.

An abridged, annotated translation of Girolamo Benzoni's 1572 History of the New World, which describes firsthand encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, New World geography, and indigenous flora and fauna.

An English translation of accounts of the experiences and responses of the indigenous peoples of western Mexico in the first half of the sixteenth century to Spanish efforts to establish control over the region that they would call Nueva Galicia.