Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640.

Prologue
Chapter 1. Liberalism
Chapter 2. Mythologies
Chapter 3. Law
Chapter 4. Authority
Chapter 5. Histories
Chapter 6. Trade
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments