A History of Latin America: c.1450 to the Present, 2nd Edition

by Peter Bakewell (Southern Methodist University)

• ISBN13: 9780631231608
• ISBN10: 0631231609
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is the second edition of Peter Bakewell's highly successful complete history of South and Central America, which now offers fuller coverage of twentieth-century developments. The book provides a vivid, analytical narrative and is clearly and extensively illustrated with maps and photographs. It describes the environment and peoples of the region before 1500, and the Iberian society which produced the conquerors; presents the story of Columbus's voyages and their aftermath in conquest by the Spanish and Portuguese; and examines the means of European domination, the mature colonial societies of Spain and Portugal and their patterns of development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For the second edition the author has revised and greatly expanded the book's coverage of the twentieth century, and has included additional illustrations covering the twentieth century and updates to the bibliography to include publications since 1997. This second edition now provides a complete history of the region suitable for all students of Latin America.

Author Biography

Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has taught in the United States since 1975, at the University of New Mexico, Emory University, and now, since 1999, at Southern Methodist University. His major research and writing has centered on the history of silver mining, and related topics, in colonial Spanish America. His previous works include Silver Mining and Society and Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí: the Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga (1988).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	x
Series Editor's Preface	xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	xvi
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Conventions Used	xix
Maps	xx
PART I BASES	1	(62)
1 Lands and Climates	4	(21)
2 American Peoples	25	(19)
3 Iberia	44	(19)
PART II APPROACHES	63	(46)
4 Columbus and Others	66	(12)
5 Experiment in the Caribbean	78	(17)
6 Military Conquest	95	(14)
PART III DOMINATION	109	(106)
7 Administration: the Power of Paper	112	(25)
8 Church: Friars, Bishops, and the State	137	(22)
9 Society: Old Orders Changed	159	(23)
10 Economy: Ships and Silver	182	(33)
PART IV MATURE COLONIES	215	(104)
11 The Seventeenth Century: a Slacker Grip	219	(52)
Challenges to Spain	219	(11)
Production, Taxes, and Trade: Spain Frail, America Sturdy	230	(9)
Indians in the Heartlands: Making Their Own Space	239	(16)
Indians in the Peripheries: Less Regimented, Less Protected	255	(6)
Women, Secular and Religious	261	(5)
Arts, Formal and Popular	266	(3)
Creole Nativism	269	(1)
Varieties of Mestizaje	270	(1)
12 Eighteenth-century Spanish America: Reformed or Deformed?	271	(48)
People, Production, and Commerce	273	(12)
Bourbon Revisions of Rules and Principles	285	(9)
Society: Change and Protest	294	(18)
Creole Self-awareness: Rejection and Reception of Europe	312	(5)
The Eighteenth-century Balance	317	(2)
PART V PORTUGAL IN AMERICA	319	(58)
13 Colonial Brazil: Slaves, Sugar, and Gold	322	(55)
Explorers, Interlopers, and Settlers	322	(5)
Indians and Jesuits	327	(3)
Sugar	330	(4)
People and Government	334	(4)
Outsiders: the Dutch, and Others, in Brazil	338	(5)
Movement Inland: Slavers, Prospectors, and Stockmen	343	(6)
Seventeenth-century Society	349	(3)
The Indians and Father Vieira	352	(2)
Government and Economy in the Seventeenth Century	354	(8)
The Age of Gold	362	(6)
Pombal and Reform	368	(4)
Products of Mind and Sensibility	372	(5)
PART VI SELF-DISCOVERY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND	377	(167)
14 Independence	382	(29)
15 Adrift in Storms: Caudillos and Penury	411	(32)
Power after Independence	412	(2)
Caudillos	414	(5)
Conservatives and Liberals	419	(15)
Post-independence Economies	434	(9)
16 Calmer Waters and a New Course: Oligarchs and Exports	443	(54)
Booming Exports	444	(9)
Politics During the Export Boom	453	(5)
The Lower Orders	458	(5)
Mexico: Diaz and the Revolution	463	(14)
The 1920's: Politics and Exports	477	(3)
Brazil: Empire and Coffee	480	(6)
Defining Themselves	486	(5)
Imperialism Revived?	491	(6)
17 People, Politics, and Economies since 1930	497	(47)
Rising Numbers	497	(4)
Economic Changes	501	(14)
Politics After 1930	515	(27)
Recent Years	542	(2)
Epilogue	544	(7)
Glossary	551	(5)
Notes	556	(27)
Bibliography	583	(22)
Index	605