• Martínez, María Elena. Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
• D’Altroy, Terence N. The Incas. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
• de Las Casas, Bartolemé. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, CreateSpace, Printed in USA, 2010.
• De Vorsey, Louis Jr. Keys to the Encounter, A Library of Congress Resource Guide to the Study of the Age of Discovery. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1992.
• Diamond, Jarred. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
• Herbert, John R. ed. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1992.
• Kagan, Richard. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
• MacQuarrie, Kim. Last Days of the Incas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
• Maltby, William S. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2009.
• Mann, Charles C. 1491, New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
• Nash, Elizabeth. Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Thomas, Hugh. Conquest, Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

YOUNG READERS

• Baquedano, Elizabeth. Aztec, Inca, & Maya (An Eyewitness Book), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
• Johnson, Sylvia A. Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, and Beans: How Foods of the Americas Changed Eating Around the World. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997.