Lawrence A ClaytonLawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas and Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle, among other tites.

Michael L. Conniff is Professor Emeritus of History at San José State University, where he directed the Global Studies Initiative. His books include Africans in the Americas, Panama and the United States, and Populism in Latin America, among others.

Susan Gauss is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s. Read More Read Less