Edith Boorstein Couturier

About The Author

Edith Boorstein Couturier holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. She has served as a Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities and has held teaching positions at SUNY, Albany, the University of Maryland, and The American University. She resides in Washington, D.C.

Series by the Author

Books by Edith Boorstein Couturier

The Silver King

The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico

By Edith Boorstein Couturier
Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710, but when he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain to assume control of the family's businesses. Edith Couturier uses Regla's career to address the growing social tensions of the eighte...
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