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 experienced reader. The authors' aim is not only to treat colonial Brazil and colonial Spanish America in a single volume, something rarely done, but also to view early Latin America as one unit with a centre and peripheries, all parts of which were characterized by variants of the same kinds of change, regardless of national and imperial borders. The authors integrate both the older and the newer historical literature, seeing legal, institutional, and political phenomena within a social, economic, and cultural context. They incorporate insights from other disciplines and newer techniques of historical research, but eschew jargon or technical concepts. The approach of the book, with its emphasis on broad social and economic trends across large areas and long time periods, does much to throw light on Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well.
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A brief general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the independence of the Spanish American countries and Brazil serves as an introduction to this quickly changing field of study.
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At the border of the Christian and Muslim spheres, the home of many kingdoms and several languages, turned partly to the Mediterranean, partly to the Atlantic, and partly in upon itself, early modern Iberia had more than its share of diversity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mature colonial period, rotary labor, semisedentary groups, early mature period, donatary captaincy, nonsedentary peoples, middle colonial period, donatary captaincies, old central areas, encomienda estates, semisedentary peoples, artisan representatives, encomienda labor, captaincy system, preconquest times, postconquest period, tribute products, late colonial times, viceregal capitals, provincial unit, tropical export, fleet system, silver industry, mining zone, late colonial period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spanish America, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, New World, New Christians, South America, Spanish Indies, Western Hemisphere, Latin America, New Granada, Rio Grande, Tupac Amaru, Santo Domingo, Sdo Paulo, North America, Hispanized Indians, Martim Afonso, New Spain, Upper Peru, West Africa, Mato Grosso, Portuguese America, Council of the Indies New!
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At the border of the Christian and Muslim spheres, the home of many kingdoms and several languages, turned partly to the Mediterranean, partly to the Atlantic, and partly in upon itself, early modern Iberia had more than its share of diversity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mature colonial period, rotary labor, semisedentary groups, early mature period, donatary captaincy, nonsedentary peoples, middle colonial period, donatary captaincies, old central areas, encomienda estates, semisedentary peoples, artisan representatives, encomienda labor, captaincy system, preconquest times, postconquest period, tribute products, late colonial times, viceregal capitals, provincial unit, tropical export, fleet system, silver industry, mining zone, late colonial period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spanish America, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, New World, New Christians, South America, Spanish Indies, Western Hemisphere, Latin America, New Granada, Rio Grande, Tupac Amaru, Santo Domingo, Sdo Paulo, North America, Hispanized Indians, Martim Afonso, New Spain, Upper Peru, West Africa, Mato Grosso, Portuguese America, Council of the Indies New!
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- FROM COLONY TO NATION: Essays on the Independence of Brazil (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) by A. J. R. Russell-Wood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778-1810: Family and Commerce (Cambridge Latin American Studies, No. 30) by Susan Migden Socolow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Letters and People of the Spanish Indies: Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by James Lockhart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808 by Kenneth Maxwell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World by John Leddy Phelan in Back Matter
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- The Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 by Mieko Nishida in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips Jr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Indian Women of Early Mexico by Susan Schroeder in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1820 by Christine Daniels on page 7, and page 93
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