The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These minibiographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political social religious and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily living in the Americas.Now fully updated with new and revised essays the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting the stories bring to life issues of gender race and ethnicity conflicts over religious orthodoxy and crime violence and rebellion. Written by leading scholars the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.Contributions by Rolena Adorno Kenneth J. Andrien Christiana Borchart de Moreno Joan Bristol Noble David Cook Marcela Echeverri Lyman L. Johnson Mary Karasch Alida C. Metcalf Kenneth Mills Muriel S. Nazzari Ana Marampiacutea Presta Susan E. Ramampiacuterez Matthew Restall Zeb Tortorici Camilla Townsend Ann Twinam and Nancy E. van Deusen.