This book examines the hemispheric histories of overlooked peoples and places that shaped colonial Spanish America.

Dana Velasco Murillo is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 (2016) and co-editor of City Indians in Spain's American Empire (with Lentz and Ochoa 2012).

Robert C. Schwaller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents (2021) and Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference (2016).

1. Introduction: Filling in Overlooked Places, Magnifying Overlooked Peoples

Dana Velasco Murillo

2. The Spanish Conquest of Panama and the Creation of Maroon Landscapes, 1513-1590

Robert C. Schwaller

3. Inconvenient Voices in the Archives: Indios de Campana, Indios Idólatras and the Maya Dilemma of the Spanish Concept of the "Pagan Frontier," 1565-1700

John F. Chuchiak IV

4. Native-Spanish Frontier Conflict and the Politics of Empire: Don Luis de Velasco in New Spain and Peru

John F. Schwaller

5. Taking on Sedentary Life: Reducción and the Reorganization of Chichimeca Lifeways, New Spain, 1590 - 1596

Dana Velasco Murillo

6. "Free Though They Are Yanaconas": Spanish Frontier Policy and the Conflict over Indigenous Labor in the Audiencia of Charcas

Chad McCutchen

7. Spanish Colonialism, The Mosquito Confederation, and Territorial Expansion in Eighteenth-Century Central America

Daniel Mendiola

8. "... Usted manda en la Plaza de Cartagena...el manda en el Palenque hasta la puerta de la Media Luna...." Geographies of Freedom and the Governance of Space in Colonial Colombia

Renée Soulodre-La France

9. Problematizing the Peoples and Places Without Historiography

Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez