"Readings in Latin American Studies. Essays by a group of international scholars exploring global trade and the movement of art, artists, ideas, and ideologies that shaped Spanish American culture from the 1500s through the nineteenth century. Delivered at the 2016 Mayer Center Symposium, Denver Art Museum"-- reseña del editor

Introduction Circulating across the empire and beyond / Jorge Rivas Pérez -- 'Nel piu ricco paese del Mondo' : Cubagua Island as an epicenter of the early Atlantic trade / Mónica Domínguez Torres -- Flemish imagery in Oaxacan furniture : Villa Alta cabinetmakers of the Zapotec Mountains, 17th-18th centuries / Gustavo Curiel -- From Goa to Lake Titicaca : further insights into cultural and artistic exchanges between South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Spanish America / Esteban García Brosseau -- The role of images in the configuration of a new colonial order in New Granada / Constanza Toquica -- Miraculous narratives : time and space collide in Spanish colonial painting / Rosario Inés Granados-Salinas -- American invention, African bodies, and Asian prestige : the hammock as an honorary mode of transportation in colonial Brazil / Rachel A. Zimmerman -- Urban intersections in Latin America : the Hispaniola connection, from the colonial city to the new republican capitals / Idurre Alonso -- Placeless monuments : portraiture, history, and sites of memory in South American Independence / Natalia Majluf