Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

by Stuart B. Schwartz

Book Overview

In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin America. Rather than concentrating on the three principal divisions of colonial society--Indians, Europeans, and people of African origins--as is common in studies of these colonial societies, Schwartz...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168458020X
• ISBN13: 9781684580200
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"