Burkholder and Johnson's interpretive survey of colonial Latin America up to the 1850s is both historiographically up-to-date and accessible to students in the first half of the undergraduate Latin American history survey, which is given by virtually all major American colleges. The text incorporates new research in social and economic theory ...
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of life stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portugese colonial regimes ...
This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the college level and a provisionally updated synthesis of the quickly changing field for the more ...
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History centers on people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text encourages detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of ...
Sections of the book include: - The Transit of Civilization - Was Inca Rule Tyrannical? - Relations Between Indians and Spaniards - Population Questions - The Introduction of African Slavery in Spanish America - The Crisis of Seventeenth-Century Brazil - The Development of Society - Crisis and Climax in the Eighteenth Century -
Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Second Dialogos Edition; Preface to the First Dialogos Edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Life Span of Some Leaders of Independence; By Way of Introduction; The Causes of Independence; The Late Colonial Revolts and Protests; The First Phase of the Independence Movements; The Second Phase of the ...
For the third edition the editor has added a section on Hugo Chavez to extend the historical perspective into the twenty-first century. Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar.The sections of the book include: Simon Bolivar - The Liberator; The Age of Caudillos - Juan ...
This volume is intended as a concise yet comprehensive study of the Iberian colonies in the New World from the pre-conquest background through European exploration, conquest, and colonization, to the wars of independence in the early-19th century. The third edition includes an expanded discussion of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas, and the authors ...
This collection of essays offers insightful confrontations with the colonial past of Latin America. It explores the binding historical legacies - the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment - with which Latin America continues to grapple. Leading scholars reflect on how this ...
Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the ...
LATIN AMERICA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD covers Latin America's pre-Colombian and colonial periods, including its civil war and struggle for independence. The textbook presents Latin American history from the "bottom up,"emphasizing the stories of indigenous peoples, African slaves, and mixed-race workers and peasants. The cultural ...
This history of Latin America chronicles the major events and personalities that brought about that region's liberation from Spain and Portugal. It focuses on the role played by heroes such as Simon Bolivar, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Jose de San Martin.
Our ideas about colonial Latin America are often tied to urban scenes. But this collection of eleven original essays, the first overview of rural life in colonial Latin America, shows the many ways in which the countryside rather than the city dominated colonial life in Brazil and throughout Spanish America. Over 80 percent of the population lived ...
Required reading in Mexican schools, this book uses a painted screen from the period as a source of detailed illustrations for this vivid tale of the arrival of Viceroy Albuquerque in Mexico in 1702. A companion volume to "Broken Shields" and "What the Aztecs Told Me," this volume is imaginatively designed to make this rich historical material ...
These essays discuss those on the margins of the dominant European discourse - Amerindians, Africans and women - whose experience is reflected in documents written during the early years of European rule in Latin America.
This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the college level and a provisionally updated synthesis of the quickly changing field for the more ...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
