Matthew Restall
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Matthew Restall is an ethnohistorian
and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin America
n History, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, Director of Latin American Studies, and Director of LiLACS at the Pennsylvania State University
. He is co-editor of Ethnohistory journal, and series editor of Latin American Originals.
Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in Spain, Venezuela, and East Asia, but was schooled in England, receiving a degree with first-class honours in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986. He earned a PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992, studying under James Lockhart
, and has since held teaching positions at various universities in the United States. A prolific scholar, Restall's dozen books and forty articles and essays published since 1995 have made him one of the world's leading historians of Colonial Latin America. His books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
(2003).
He is a prominent member of the New Philology
school of colonial Mexican history, and a founder of a related school, the New Conquest History.
Restall's sister is Emma Restall Orr
, the neo-Druid author.
Ethnohistory
Ethnohistory is the study of ethnographic cultures and indigenous customs by examining historical records. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may not exist today....
and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
n History, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, Director of Latin American Studies, and Director of LiLACS at the Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
. He is co-editor of Ethnohistory journal, and series editor of Latin American Originals.
Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in Spain, Venezuela, and East Asia, but was schooled in England, receiving a degree with first-class honours in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986. He earned a PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992, studying under James Lockhart
James Lockhart (historian)
James Marvin Lockhart is a U.S. historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin America.Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Lockhart attended West Virginia University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison . He is an expert in the study of historical sources in the Nahuatl language and...
, and has since held teaching positions at various universities in the United States. A prolific scholar, Restall's dozen books and forty articles and essays published since 1995 have made him one of the world's leading historians of Colonial Latin America. His books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest is a 2003 non-fiction book by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall which exposes seven myths about the Spanish colonization of the Americas that have come to be widely believed to be true...
(2003).
He is a prominent member of the New Philology
New Philology
New Philology is a school within ethnohistory that seeks to describe the history of colonized people largely by using the colonized peoples' own written sources to understand their perspective of their own history...
school of colonial Mexican history, and a founder of a related school, the New Conquest History.
Restall's sister is Emma Restall Orr
Emma Restall Orr
Emma Restall Orr is a British neo-druid, animist, priest, poet and author . She worked for the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in the early 1990s, becoming an Ovate tutor. In 1993 she became joint chief of the British Druid Order staying until 2002...
, the neo-Druid author.
External links
- Matthew Restall, Faculty webpage at Penn. State U.