Vitus Huber

The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

Vitus Huber is professor of early modern history at the University of Fribourg. He is the author of two books on the coercive encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds. A recipient of several research grants, he was a senior researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Munich, Bern, and Geneva as well as a visiting fellow at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, CSIC, in Madrid; Colegio de México in Mexico City; John Carter Brown Library in Providence; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Università degli Studi di Padova; Harvard University; and the University of Oxford.