Publications

New World Gold: Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010 *Included in Choice 2011 list of outstanding academic books.
“Doing Things with Money in Early Modern Spain” in A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance. Ed. Hilarie Kallendorf. Leiden & Boston: Brill. Commissioned by the Renaissance Society of America. [Forthcoming]
Vilches, Elvira. “Trade, Silver, and Print Culture in the Colonial Americas.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 24, no. 3 (2015): 315-34.:
“Witnessing Crisis in Contemporary and Golden Age Spain” in Connecting Past and Present: Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age Spain in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries. Aaron Khan ed. New Castle upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 109-132.
“Coins, Value, and Trust: The Problematics of Vellón” in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture, Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World, Jason Mckosky and Ignacio López ed., Bucknell University Press: Lanham, 2013. 195-212. [Head article, material culture section]
“El Atlántico en la historiografía indiana del siglo XVI.” Otros estudios transatlánticos; lecturas desde lo latinoamericano. Special Issue. Revista Iberoamericana 75 (2009): 639-55. [Head article]
“Imperial Sissies and Bully Amazons: The Question of “Valor” in Lope de Vega’s Las mujeres sin los hombres.” Annals of Scholarship 16 (2005): 175-91.
“Atlantic Crossings and Valuation in Early New World Historiography. ” Atlantic History: Soundings. Proceedings of the Tenth-Anniversary Conference of the Atlantic History Seminar: Harvard University, August 10-13, 2005. Cambridge: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2005. 303-6.
“Columbus’s Gift: Representations of Grace and Wealth and the Enterprise of the Indies.” Modern Languages Notes 119 (2004): 201-25.
“Caribbean Exchanges and Colonial Economy, 1492-1510.” Atlantic History Seminar’s Working Paper Series, Harvard University. 99-05 (1999): 1-19.