Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil

by James Lockhart , Stuart B. Schwartz

• ISBN13: 9780521299299
• ISBN10: 0521299292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the independence of the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492 to 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.

Table of Contents

List of tables, figures and maps

Preface

Part I. The Context: 1. Iberian ways

2. Indigenous ways

Part II. Origins and Early Maturity: 3. From islands to mainland: the Caribbean phase and subsequent conquests

4. Conquest society: central areas

5. Maturity in the Spanish Indies: central areas

6. Brazilian beginnings

7. Brazil in the sugar cane

8. The fringes

Part III. Reorientations: 9. Late colonial times in the Spanish Indies

10. Brazil in the age of gold and absolutism

11. Epilogue: the coming of independence

Bibliography

Index.