Reviews several books on Latin American cultures. Such books include: `Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century,' by Ida Altman; `Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800,' edited by Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden; `Conquest of New Spain, 1585 Revision,' by Bernardino de Sahagun, translated by Howard F. Cline, edited with an introduction and notes by S.L. Cline; More.