Required Books
Boyer and Spurling, Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850 (Oxford, 1999).
Burkholder and Johnson, Colonial Latin America (Page References in the syllabus are to the eighth edition, but 9th or 10th are fine).
Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin, 1999).
Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Beacon, 1997).
Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 1988).
Recommended Books
The Craft of Research (Chicago, Second, Third, or Fourth Edition)
Williams, Style (Chicago, 1995)