Matthew Restall

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Restall
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1964(1964-03-17)
Age	60
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Matthew Restall Biography

Matthew Restall is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on March 17, 1964 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Matthew Restall (born 1964) is a historian of Colonial Latin America. He is an ethnohistorian and a scholar of conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas. He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. He is President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, a former editor of Ethnohistory journal, a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.

Since 1995, Restall has published over 20 books and 60 articles and essays. His best-known book is Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003), which has also been published in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. His other books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), Invading Guatemala (with Florine Asselbergs, 2007), 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari, 2011), Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane, 2011), and The Conquistadors (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 2012). His book The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan won the Conference on Latin American History’s 2009 prize for best book on Mexican history. His newest book, When Montezuma met Cortés was published by HarperCollins in January 2018. He is currently writing a book on early Belize.

Matthew Restall Net Worth

Matthew Restall is one of the richest Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Restall 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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, primarily at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree 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.

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Matt Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Matthew Restall celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.