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PhD Latin American History University of Chicago
Masters Latin American History University of Chicago
Bachelors History University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Matthew Restall is a historian of Colonial Latin America. He is an ethnohistorian, a Mayanist, a scholar of the conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas, and a historian of popular music. Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatán and Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. He is a member of the New Philology school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school, the New Conquest History. He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory , a former editor of Ethnohistory journal , a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review , editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series. He also writes books on the history of popular music.

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The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997) (119)
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003) (118)
A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History (2003) (102)
Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America* (2000) (86)
Beyond black and red : African-native relations in colonial Latin America (2005) (63)
Drought and Its Demographic Effects in the Maya Lowlands (2017) (56)
The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (2009) (50)
Mesoamerican voices : native-language writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (2005) (47)
The New Conquest History (2012) (45)
Crossing to Safety? Frontier Flight in Eighteenth-Century Belize and Yucatan (2014) (35)
Maya Ethnogenesis and Group Identity in Yucatán, 1500–1900 (2017) (32)
Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes (1998) (32)
Heirs to the Hieroglyphs: Indigenous Writing in Colonial Mesoamerica (1997) (30)
Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (2010) (27)
Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (2008) (25)
Vision and Revision in Maya Studies (1994) (21)
Ethnohistory of the Pacific Coast: Prehispanic and Colonial Life in Guatemala and Mexico.@@@Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s. (1997) (20)
Latin America in Colonial Times (2011) (19)
An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua (review) (2004) (19)
Creating “Belize”: The Mapping and Naming History of a Liminal Locale (2019) (12)
Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam (2011) (11)
The Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice (2008) (10)
The People of the Patio: Ethnohistorical Evidence of Yucatec Maya Royal Courts (2018) (9)
The African Experience in Early Spanish America* (2000) (8)
When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True History of the Meetings that Changed History (2018) (5)
Indigenous Writing and Literacy in Colonial Mexico (1992) (5)
The Black Middle (2009) (5)
Return to Ixil : Maya Society in an Eighteenth-century Yucatec Town (2019) (4)
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, part 2. (2001) (4)
Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico (2013) (4)
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction (2011) (3)
Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture (2016) (3)
The Renaissance World from the West (2007) (2)
Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Ancient Maya. Electronic Library (2008) (2)
The Spanish Conquest Revisited (2012) (2)
THE MYSTERIOUS AND THE INVISIBLE: WRITING HISTORY IN AND OF COLONIAL YUCATAN (2010) (2)
Mesoamerican Voices: Political Life (2005) (2)
The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502–1610) (2011) (1)
Leslie G. Cecil and Timothy W. Pugh (eds.), Maya Worldviews at Conquest (Boulder CO: University Press of Colorado, 2009), pp. xviii+426, $60.00, hb. (2010) (1)
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (1)
Spanish creation of the conquest of Mexico (2008) (1)
The Maya World (1999) (1)
The Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice:The Rabinal Achi:A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice (2004) (1)
The New Conquest History and the New Philology in Colonial Mesoamerica (2013) (1)
Introduction: The Meaning and Mechanics of Maya Survivalism (2001) (1)
Sources for the Ethnohistory and Afrohistory of Postconquest Yucatan (2007) (1)
The Americas in the age of indigenous empires (2015) (1)
Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross (review) (2012) (1)
Group Identity in Yucatán , 1500 – 1900 (2017) (0)
Elizabeth Graham.Maya Christians and Their Churches in Sixteenth-Century Belize. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 416 pp.: 80 black-and-white illustrations, 19 maps. $79.95. (2013) (0)
The History of the Conquest of New Spain (2010) (0)
Filología y etnohistoria. Una breve historia de la "nueva filología" en Norteamérica (2014) (0)
Mesoamerican Voices: Literacy in Colonial Mesoamerica (2005) (0)
Patricia Lopes Don, Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010), pp. xiii+263, $34.95, hb. (2011) (0)
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (review) (2005) (0)
The Direction of Afro-Mexican Studies (1969) (0)
Kathleen Annmyers. Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World. Translated by Nina M. Scott. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 324. $50.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern (2009) (0)
Mesoamerican Voices: Crime and Punishment (2005) (0)
Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy (2005) (0)
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By Ilona Katzew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 242. Color and black & white illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth. (2005) (0)
Mesoamerican Voices: Views of the Conquest (2005) (0)
In the Shadow of Cortés: Conversations Along the Route of Conquest - by Myers, Kathleen Ann (2018) (0)
RESTALL, Matthew. Crossing to Safety? Frontier flight in Eighteennth-Century Belize and Yucatan. (2014) (0)
Central Issues: Social History and the Recent Study of Colonial Central America (1998) (0)
Book Review: Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014) (0)
Sylvia Sellers-García, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xiii +257, $60.00, hb. (2015) (0)
Review of 'Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive' (2018) (0)
Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture (review) (2004) (0)
James Lockhart (1933–2014) (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Reviews (2010) (0)
16th-Century New Spain (2011) (0)
Elton John's Blue Moves (2020) (0)
5. A shortcut to the grave (2012) (0)
5. A day in the life (2020) (0)
Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By William B. Taylor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. 868 pp. $75.00 (1997) (0)
Maya Lords and Lordship: The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600 by Sergio Quezada (review) (2015) (0)
Neil L. Whitehead (1956-2012) (2012) (0)
Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America by Dennis Herrick (review) (2019) (0)
A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857 (review) (2012) (0)
Maya militia: the defense and government of colonial Ixil, Yucatan (2020) (0)
Index, Volume 45 (2012) (0)
Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico. By Louise M. Burkhart. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. 314. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.95.) (1997) (0)
3. To give account of who I am (2012) (0)
3. The divine king (2020) (0)
The Ancient Maya Civilization, 5th ed.. By Robert J. Sharer. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. 892. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $79.50.)Daily Life in Maya Civilization. By Robert J. Sharer. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. 236. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. No Price. (1998) (0)
Reviews of Books (2021) (0)
The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century World - by Kazanjian, David (2018) (0)
A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857. By Matthew D. O'Hara (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. xi plus 316 pp. $84.95 hardback, $23.95 paperback) (2012) (0)
Short Notices (2010) (0)
Matthew Restall and Kris Lane present a compelling and readable introduction to the complex and diverse history of colonial Latin America. From Restall’s expertise on the nature of Spanish conquest and both Maya and African-descended persons in Yucatán (0)
2. Maya genesis (2020) (0)
2018 Presidential Address: The Trouble with “America” (2020) (0)
Society and Gender (2005) (0)
Max Harris, Aztecs, Moors and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain (Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 2000), pp. x+309, $55.00, $24.95 pb. (2003) (0)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez (review) (2001) (0)
Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs (review) (2003) (0)
2. Many victories, great conquests (2012) (0)
Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the Sixteenth Century (2005) (0)
4. By a miracle of God (2012) (0)
REFERENCES AND READINGS (2021) (0)
Reviews (2009) (0)
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (review) (2007) (0)
Household and Land (2005) (0)
Afterword: The irreplaceable window: Reflections on the study of indigenous wills (2016) (0)
Legitimised Violence in Colonial Spanish America (2020) (0)
4. The writing rabbit (2020) (0)
Obituary James Lockhart (1933-2014) (2014) (0)
Ida Altman. The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. 340 pp., 16 halftones and line drawings, 7 maps. ISBN: 9780826344939 (pbk.). $28.95. (2011) (0)
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography (review) (2005) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography . By Ian Graham. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Pp. 323. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $39.95 Cloth. (2005) (0)
Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves . London and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. vii + 374 pp. ISBN 0-674-01061-2. (2004) (0)
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies. BERNARDO DE VARGAS MACHUCA: Edited and with an introduction by Kris Lane and translated by Timothy F. Johnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008 (2013) (0)
Beverly C. McMillan ed., Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas. Washington, DC and Newport News, VA (Smithsonian Institution Press and The Mariners' Museum) 2002. Illustrations. Notes. Index. 208 pp. ISBN 1-58834-037-6 (cloth); 1-58834-017-1 (pbk.). (2003) (0)
1. Creating “the Maya” (2020) (0)
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Volume II, Mesoamerica, part 2. Richard E. W. Adams. and Murdo J. Macleod, editors. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000. xvi + 455 pp., figures, bibliographies, index. $89.95 (cloth). (2000) (0)
The Wars of Invasion in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, 1492–1547 (2020) (0)
Lovell, W. George, Lutz, Christopher H. and Kramer, Wendy (2020) Strike Fear in the Land: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), xvi + 174 pp. £27.50 hbk. (2021) (0)
A history of violence and indigeneity (2021) (0)
Imagining the Maya: Sources and Scholarship@@@Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands@@@Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize@@@Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya@@@Aztec and Maya Myths@@@Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812@@@The Bird Who Cleans (1995) (0)
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing (review) (2002) (0)
1. A great many hardships (2012) (0)
Indigenous Writing and Literacy in Colonial Mexico - eScholarship (1992) (0)
Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes (eds.), Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America (Birmingham: The University of Birmingham Press, 1999), pp. xi+304, £16.99 pb. (2001) (0)
The Heart To Rule: Election Documents in Yucatec Maya of 1612, 1706 and 1812 (1990) (0)
Polygamy and the Rise and Demise of the Aztec Empire - by Hassig, Ross (2018) (0)
Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (review) (2002) (0)

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