In 2017, Reséndez won the
Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for ''
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America''.
Early life
Reséndez grew up in Mexico City.
Education and career
He received his Bachelor's degree in International relations at
el Colegio de México
El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities.
The college was founded in 1940 by the Me ...
in 1992 and worked in the Mexican government briefly around that time. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. in history at the
University of Chicago
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. During his years as a graduate student, Reséndez served as a consultant for historical soap operas. He went on to teach at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
and
University of Helsinki
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. He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.
Books
* ''Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery,'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
* ''
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
* ''A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca,'' Basic Books, 2007.
* ''Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850,'' Cambridge University Press. 2005.
* ''A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition,'' edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Andrés Reséndez. Dallas: DeGolyer Library/Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 2005.
* ''Caught Between Profits and Rituals: National Contestation in Texas and New Mexico, 1821–1848,'' University of Chicago, 1997
See also
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Slavery in the colonial history of the United States
The institution of slavery in the European colonization of the Americas, European colonies in North America, which eventually became part of the United States, United States of America, developed due to a combination of factors. Primarily, the ...
*
Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European European colonization of the Americas, colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, ...
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Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas
Slavery was widely practiced by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, both prior to European colonisation and subsequently.
Slavery and related practices of forced labor varied greatly between regions and over time. In some instances, tradit ...
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Slavery in New Spain
Slavery in New Spain was based mainly on the importation of slaves from Central Africa and West Africa to work in the colony in the enormous plantations, ranches or mining areas of the viceroyalty, since their physical constitution supposedly ...
References
External links
Andres Resendezon
C-SPAN
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Faculty profilefor University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of the United States
Historians of Mexico
Historians of Texas
University of Chicago alumni
El Colegio de México alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bancroft Prize winners
American male non-fiction writers
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