Introduction: Iberian Empires and a Theory of Early Modern Globalization Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole Chapter 1: Precious Metals in the Americas at the Beginning of the Global Economy Bernd Hausberger Chapter 2: A New Moses: Vasco de Quiroga's Hospitals and the Transformation of "Indians" from "Bárbaros" to "Pobres" Ivonne del Valle Chapter 3: Religion, Caste, and Race in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires: Local and Global Dimensions María Elena Martínez Chapter 4: The Portuguese Inquisition and Colonial Expansion: The "Honor" of Being Tried by the Holy Office Bruno Feitler Chapter 5: Jesuit Networks and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Alonso de Sandoval's Naturaleza, policía sagrada y profana (1627) Anna More Chapter 6: Household Challenges: The Laws of Slaveholding and the Practices of Freedom in Colonial Peru Rachel Sarah O'Toole Chapter 7: The Reason of Freedom and the Freedom of Reason: The Neo-Scholastic Critique of African Slavery and Its Impact on the Construction of the Nineteenth-Century Republic in Spanish America María Eugenia Chaves Chapter 8: Jesuits and Indigenous Subjects in the Global Culture of Letters: Production, Circulation, and Adaptation of Missionary Texts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Guillermo Wilde Chapter 9: The Iridescent Enconchado Charlene Villaseñor Black Chapter 10: "Idolatrous Images" and "True Images": European Visual Culture and Its Circulation in Early Modern China Elisabetta Corsi Chapter 11: Barlaam and Josaphat in Early Modern Spain and the Colonial Philippines: Spiritual Exercises of Freedom at the Center and Periphery Jody Blanco Afterword: Reimagining Colonial Latin America from a Global Perspective Raúl Marrero-Fente and Nicholas Spadaccini Contributors Index.