During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South Ameri

In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently

Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence

An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by m