Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall (b. 17 March, 1964) is an ethnohistorian and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American 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.

External links

• Matthew Restall, Faculty webpage at Penn. State U.
• Works by or about Matthew Restall in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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