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Matthew Restall

January 20, 2023

Matthew Restall (born 1964) is a historian of Colonial Latin America.[1] He is an ethnohistorian, a Mayanist, a scholar of the conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas, and an historian of popular music. Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatán and Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. He is a member of the New Philology[2] school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school, the New Conquest History.[3] He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2017–18), a former editor of Ethnohistory journal (2007–17), a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017–22), editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.[4] He also writes books on the history of popular music.[1]

Biography

Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986. He earned an MA in 1989 and a PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992, studying under James Lockhart, and then held teaching positions at universities in Texas and Boston before taking up a tenured post at Penn State. After 9/11 he became a joint US/British citizen. In 2020, Restall was the Richard Greenleaf Distinguished Chair of Latin American Studies at Tulane University. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

Since 1995, Restall has published 30 books in seven languages, as well as 80 articles and essays. He appears regularly on TV documentaries, radio shows, and podcasts, discussing the Aztecs and Mayas, Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors, and the history of rock and pop music. His best-known book is Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003), which has also been published in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. In 2003, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest was listed as one of the twelve Best History Books of the year by The Economist.[5] An Updated Edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest was published in 2021, with an edition in Chinese coming in 2023. His other books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), Invading Guatemala (with Florine Asselbergs, 2007), 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari, 2011), Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane, 2011; 2nd edition, 2018), and The Conquistadors (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 2012). His book The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan won the Conference on Latin American History's 2009 prize for best book on Mexican history. His recent book, When Montezuma met Cortés[6] (HarperCollins, January 2018) won the 2019 Conference on Latin American History's Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize for best book or article "judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America."[7] His newest books are Return to Ixil (with Mark Christensen), The Maya (with Amara Solari), and his first book on popular music, Blue Moves.[8] He is currently writing books on post-pop, on Elton John, on Christopher Columbus, and on early Belize (tentatively titled The Caye).[9]

He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library, the Library of Congress, and the Capitol Historical Society.[10]

His father is the ornithologist Robin Restall, his sister is the neo-druid author Emma Restall Orr, and his spouse is the art historian Amara Solari.[11]

Bibliography of Books

  • Entre Mayas y Españoles: Africanos en el Yucatán Colonial. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica. (2020)
  • The Maya: A Very Short Introduction (with Amara Solari). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020)
  • Blue Moves. New York: Bloomsbury, 33 1/3 series. (2020)
  • Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town (with Mark Christensen). Boulder: University Press of Colorado. (2019)
  • Cuando Montezumo conoció a Cortés. Mexico City: Taurus. Spanish edition of When Montezuma Met Cortés. (2019)
  • When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins. (2018)
  • Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2nd edition of 2011 book. (2018)
  • I Sette Miti Della Conquista Spagnola. Palermo: 21 Editore. Italian edition of Seven Myths. (2017)
  • Конкуридаторите. Sofia: Ashur. Bulgarian edition of The Conquistadors. (2017)
  • Conquista de Buenas Palabras y de Guerra: una visión indígena de la conquista (with Michel Oudijk). Mexico City: UNAM. Revised edition of La Conquista Indígena. (2014)
  • Los Conquistadores (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Spanish edition of The Conquistadors. (2013)
  • The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2012)
  • Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2011)
  • The Riddle of Latin America (with Kris Lane). Boston: Cengage. (2011)
  • 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. (2011)
  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (2009)
  • Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (editor, with Ben Vinson III). Diálogos series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (2009)
  • La Conquista Indígena de Mesoamérica: El caso de Don Gonzalo Mazatzin Moctezuma (with Michel Oudijk). Puebla, Mexico: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Puebla. (2008)
  • Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (with Florine Asselbergs). Latin American Originals #2. University Park: Penn State University Press. (2007)
  • Sete mitos da conquista espanhola. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira. Portuguese edition of Seven Myths. (2006)
  • Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatán, and Guatemala (with Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2005)
  • Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (editor). Diálogos series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (2005)
  • Los siete mitos de la conquista española. Barcelona: Paidós (Paidós Orígenes #46). Spanish edition of Seven Myths. (2005)
  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. New York: Oxford University Press. (2003)
  • Maya Survivalism (editor, with Ueli Hostettler). Markt Schwaben, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein (Acta Mesoamericana No. 12). (2001)
  • Maya Conquistador. Boston: Beacon Press. (1998)
  • Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes (editor, with Susan Kellogg). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (1998)
  • The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550–1850. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (1997)
  • Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s. Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos. (1995)

References

  1. ^ "Matthew Restall — Department of History". history.la.psu.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  2. ^ Restall, Matthew (2003). "A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History". Latin American Research Review. 38:1: 113–134. doi:10.1353/lar.2003.0012. S2CID 145366292.
  3. ^ Restall, Matthew (2012). "The New Conquest History". History Compass. 10:2 (2): 151–160. doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00822.x.
  4. ^ "Matthew Restall — Department of History". Pennsylvania State University, Directory. 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Home entertainment". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  6. ^ Frederick, James (November 10, 2019). "500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated". NPR.
  7. ^ "CLAH » The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  8. ^ "It's no 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road': Elton John work subject of new book". June 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "Matthew Restall — Official webpage". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Matthew Restall — Official webpage". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  11. ^ Solari, Amara (2020). "Amara Solari, Professor of Art History and Anthropology". Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.

External links

  • Matthew Restall, Faculty webpage at Penn. State U.
  • Amazon.com, Restall books available on Amazon.
  • Academia.edu, Complete list of Restall's published books, articles, and essays.
  • Latin American Originals, Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Cambridge Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press
  • Ethnohistory Quarterly, American Society for Ethnohistory
  • Works by or about Matthew Restall in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  • "Works of Matthew Restall". Google Scholar.

January 20, 2023
matthew, restall, born, 1964, historian, colonial, latin, america, ethnohistorian, mayanist, scholar, conquest, colonization, african, diaspora, americas, historian, popular, music, restall, areas, specialization, yucatán, mexico, guatemala, belize, member, ph. Matthew Restall born 1964 is a historian of Colonial Latin America 1 He is an ethnohistorian a Mayanist a scholar of the conquest colonization and the African diaspora in the Americas and an historian of popular music Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatan and Mexico Guatemala and Belize He is a member of the New Philology 2 school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school the New Conquest History 3 He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology and Director of Latin American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory 2017 18 a former editor of Ethnohistory journal 2007 17 a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review 2017 22 editor of the book series Latin American Originals and co editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series 4 He also writes books on the history of popular music 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography of Books 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditRestall was born in a suburb of London England in 1964 He grew up in England Denmark Spain Venezuela Japan and Hong Kong But he was schooled in England from the age of 8 spending ten boarding school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College before going on to receive a BA degree First Class with Honors in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986 He earned an MA in 1989 and a PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992 studying under James Lockhart and then held teaching positions at universities in Texas and Boston before taking up a tenured post at Penn State After 9 11 he became a joint US British citizen In 2020 Restall was the Richard Greenleaf Distinguished Chair of Latin American Studies at Tulane University He is a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library Brown University Since 1995 Restall has published 30 books in seven languages as well as 80 articles and essays He appears regularly on TV documentaries radio shows and podcasts discussing the Aztecs and Mayas Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors and the history of rock and pop music His best known book is Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest 2003 which has also been published in Spanish Portuguese and Italian In 2003 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest was listed as one of the twelve Best History Books of the year by The Economist 5 An Updated Edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest was published in 2021 with an edition in Chinese coming in 2023 His other books include The Maya World Yucatec Culture and Society 1550 1850 1997 Maya Conquistador 1998 Invading Guatemala with Florine Asselbergs 2007 2012 and the End of the World The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse with Amara Solari 2011 Latin America in Colonial Times with Kris Lane 2011 2nd edition 2018 and The Conquistadors with Felipe Fernandez Armesto 2012 His book The Black Middle Africans Mayas and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan won the Conference on Latin American History s 2009 prize for best book on Mexican history His recent book When Montezuma met Cortes 6 HarperCollins January 2018 won the 2019 Conference on Latin American History s Howard F Cline Memorial Prize for best book or article judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America 7 His newest books are Return to Ixil with Mark Christensen The Maya with Amara Solari and his first book on popular music Blue Moves 8 He is currently writing books on post pop on Elton John on Christopher Columbus and on early Belize tentatively titled The Caye 9 He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton the John Carter Brown Library the Library of Congress and the Capitol Historical Society 10 His father is the ornithologist Robin Restall his sister is the neo druid author Emma Restall Orr and his spouse is the art historian Amara Solari 11 Bibliography of Books EditEntre Mayas y Espanoles Africanos en el Yucatan Colonial Mexico City Fondo de Cultura Economica 2020 The Maya A Very Short Introduction with Amara Solari Oxford Oxford University Press 2020 Blue Moves New York Bloomsbury 33 1 3 series 2020 Return to Ixil Maya Society in an Eighteenth Century Yucatec Town with Mark Christensen Boulder University Press of Colorado 2019 Cuando Montezumo conocio a Cortes Mexico City Taurus Spanish edition of When Montezuma Met Cortes 2019 When Montezuma Met Cortes The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History New York Ecco HarperCollins 2018 Latin America in Colonial Times with Kris Lane Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2nd edition of 2011 book 2018 I Sette Miti Della Conquista Spagnola Palermo 21 Editore Italian edition of Seven Myths 2017 Konkuridatorite Sofia Ashur Bulgarian edition of The Conquistadors 2017 Conquista de Buenas Palabras y de Guerra una vision indigena de la conquista with Michel Oudijk Mexico City UNAM Revised edition of La Conquista Indigena 2014 Los Conquistadores with Felipe Fernandez Armesto Madrid Alianza Editorial Spanish edition of The Conquistadors 2013 The Conquistadors A Very Short Introduction with Felipe Fernandez Armesto Oxford Oxford University Press 2012 Latin America in Colonial Times with Kris Lane Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011 The Riddle of Latin America with Kris Lane Boston Cengage 2011 2012 and the End of the World The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse with Amara Solari Lanham Rowman amp Littlefield 2011 The Black Middle Africans Mayas and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan Stanford Stanford University Press 2009 Black Mexico Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times editor with Ben Vinson III Dialogos series Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2009 La Conquista Indigena de Mesoamerica El caso de Don Gonzalo Mazatzin Moctezuma with Michel Oudijk Puebla Mexico Secretaria de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Puebla 2008 Invading Guatemala Spanish Nahua and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars with Florine Asselbergs Latin American Originals 2 University Park Penn State University Press 2007 Sete mitos da conquista espanhola Rio de Janeiro Civilizacao Brasileira Portuguese edition of Seven Myths 2006 Mesoamerican Voices Native Language Writings from Central Mexico Oaxaca Yucatan and Guatemala with Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005 Beyond Black and Red African Native Relations in Colonial Latin America editor Dialogos series Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2005 Los siete mitos de la conquista espanola Barcelona Paidos Paidos Origenes 46 Spanish edition of Seven Myths 2005 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest New York Oxford University Press 2003 Maya Survivalism editor with Ueli Hostettler Markt Schwaben Germany Verlag Anton Saurwein Acta Mesoamericana No 12 2001 Maya Conquistador Boston Beacon Press 1998 Dead Giveaways Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes editor with Susan Kellogg Salt Lake City University of Utah Press 1998 The Maya World Yucatec Culture and Society 1550 1850 Stanford Stanford University Press 1997 Life and Death in a Maya Community The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s Lancaster CA Labyrinthos 1995 References Edit Matthew Restall Department of History history la psu edu Retrieved 2020 09 14 Restall Matthew 2003 A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History Latin American Research Review 38 1 113 134 doi 10 1353 lar 2003 0012 S2CID 145366292 Restall Matthew 2012 The New Conquest History History Compass 10 2 2 151 160 doi 10 1111 j 1478 0542 2011 00822 x Matthew Restall Department of History Pennsylvania State University Directory 2015 Retrieved 13 February 2015 Home entertainment The Economist ISSN 0013 0613 Retrieved 2020 09 05 Frederick James November 10 2019 500 Years Later The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated NPR CLAH The Howard F Cline Memorial Prize clah h net org Retrieved 2020 09 05 It s no Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John work subject of new book June 3 2020 Matthew Restall Official webpage Retrieved 30 January 2018 Matthew Restall Official webpage Retrieved 30 January 2018 Solari Amara 2020 Amara Solari Professor of Art History and Anthropology Penn State College of Arts and Architecture External links EditMatthew Restall Faculty webpage at Penn State U Amazon com Restall books available on Amazon Academia edu Complete list of Restall s published books articles and essays Latin American Originals Pennsylvania State University Press Cambridge Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press Ethnohistory Quarterly American Society for Ethnohistory Works by or about Matthew Restall in libraries WorldCat catalog Works of Matthew Restall Google Scholar Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Matthew Restall amp oldid 1120748351, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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