Description
Book SynopsisThe updated and enhanced third edition of A History of Latin America to 1825 presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history from the region''s first human presence until the majority of Iberian colonies in America emerged as sovereign states c. 1825.
- This edition features new content on the history of women, gender, Africans in the Iberian colonies, and pre-Columbian peoples
- Includes more illustrations to aid learning: over 50 figures and photographs, several accompanied by short essays
- Concentrates on the colonial period and earlier, expanding coverage of the period and incorporating more social and cultural history with the political narrative
Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series
The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two do
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
List of Maps xiii
Photo Essay xiv
Series Editor’s Preface xv
Preface to the Third Edition xviii
Conventions Used in the Text xix
Maps xx
PART I BASES 1
1 Lands and Climates 5
2 American Peoples 22
Ancient Peoples 26
Formative Peoples 30
Classic Peoples 35
Aztecs and Incas 47
Less Known Cultures 61
3 Iberia and Africa 68
PART II APPROACHES 93
4 Columbus and Others 97
5 Experiment in the Caribbean 109
6 Military Conquest 126
PART III DOMINATION 141
7 Administration: The Power of Paper 145
8 Church: Friars, Bishops, and the State 171
9 Society: Old Orders Changed 195
10 Economy: Ships and Silver 225
Photo Essay 259
PART IV MATURE COLONIES 275
11 The Seventeenth Century: A Slacker Grip 281
Challenges to Spain 281
Production, Taxes, and Trade in America 297
Indians in the Heartlands: Making their own Space 307
Indians on the Peripheries 316
Africans 322
Women 328
Arts, Formal and Popular 338
Varieties of Mestizaje 346
12 Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Reformed or Deformed? 349
People, Production, and Commerce 351
Bourbon Revisions of Rules and Principles 364
Society: Change and Protest 374
Creole Self-Awareness: Rejection and Reception of Europe 386
The Eighteenth-Century Balance 395
PART V PORTUGAL IN AMERICA 397
13 Colonial Brazil: Slaves, Sugar, and Gold 401
Explorers, Interlopers, and Settlers 401
Indians and Jesuits 406
Sugar 410
People and Government 415
Outsiders: The Dutch, and Others, in Brazil 419
Movement Inland: Slavers, Prospectors, and Stockmen 424
Seventeenth-Century Society 430
The Indians and Father Vieira 433
Government and Economy in the Seventeenth Century 436
The Age of Gold 444
Pombal and Reform 451
Products of Mind and Sensibility 455
PART VI INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND 463
14 Independence 465
15 Epilogue 495
Glossary 505
Notes 510
Bibliography 536
Index 563
Chronologies for each part appear after the part-title page.
