Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1974, this is a collection of original essays by distinguished scholars proposing original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- State and Society in Colonial Spanish America: An Opportunity for Prosopography (Stuart B. Schwartz)
- Spanish and American Counterpoint: Problems and Possibilities in Spanish Colonial Administrative History (Margaret E. Crahan)
- Bases of Political Alignment in Early Republican Spanish America (Frank Safford)
- Political Power and Landownership in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Richard Graham)
- An Approach to Regionalism (Joseph L. Love)
- Comparative Slave Systems in the Americas: A Critical Review (John V. Lombardi)
- Approaches to Immigration History (Michael M. Hall)
- Psychoanalysis and Latin American History (Margaret Todaro Williams)
- Political Legitimacy in Spanish America (Peter H. Smith)
- Glossary
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
