This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages

DIVAsks how elite native intermediaries conversant in Spanish language, legal rhetoric, and personal demeanor shaped the political and cultural landscape of col

Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contr

An exploration of how policies protecting indigenous people's rights were entwined with reforming them as governable subjects, including through punishment unde

This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s