The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World

 The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of the Spanish conquest period, including the perspectives of both the creators of the colonial world, of religious figures, and of indigenous points of view to show how a venture-capital model can be used to analyze the partnership between crown and church.

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The January 2026 cover of PAW, featuring a man and a woman and the headline "Empower Couple."
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January 2026

Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.