Call for Award Nominations for the 2017 Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 5-8th. Nominations are now open for the following awards given by the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.

SLAVE NAMES IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA HENNIG COHEN University of South Carolina AN INADEQUATE use by scholars and compilers of dictionaries of at least one colonial newspaper, the South Carolina Gazette published at Charles-

General Overviews. Given the tremendous size of the subject and its chronological length, Latin American mining still awaits its first satisfactory historical summary.

Colonial Administration in Latin America. The first royal judicial body established in New Spain in 1527 was the audiencia of Mexico City. The audiencia consisted of four judges, who also held executive

The term “Latin America” primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World.Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from North to South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca …

Latin American literature: Latin American literature, the national literatures of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere. Historically, it also includes the literary expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations conquered by …

Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions.. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas Uranus European colonization in the 16th century.

Between the 1490s and the 1850s, Latin America, including the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, imported the largest number of African slaves to the New World, generating the single-greatest concentration of black populations outside of the African continent. This pivotal moment in the transfer

Latin American music: Latin American music, musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese.

Learn about the unique structure of Latin American cities as they developed in the colonial environment of the New World.