A History of Latin America to 1825

by Bakewell, Peter; Holler, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9781405183680
• ISBN10: 1405183683
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The updated and enhanced third edition of A History of Latin America to 1825 presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history from the region's first human presence until the majority of Iberian colonies in America emerged as sovereign states c. 1825. This edition features new content on the history of women, gender, Africans in the Iberian colonies, and pre-Columbian peoples Includes more illustrations to aid learning: over 50 figures and photographs, several accompanied by short essays Concentrates on the colonial period and earlier, expanding coverage of the period and incorporating more social and cultural history with the political narrative

Author Biography

Peter Bakewell is Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and has taught in the US since 1975. 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 in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí: The Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga (1988).

Jacqueline Holler is Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, Canada. She is the author of Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531–1601 (2003), and of articles on colonial Mexico.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

List of Photo Essays

Series Editor's Preface

Preface to the Third Edition

Conventions Used in the Text

Maps

Bases

Lands and Climates

American Peoples

Ancient Peoples

Formative Peoples

Classic Peoples

Aztecs and Incas

Less Known Cultures

Iberia and Africa

Approaches:

Columbus and Others

Experiment in the Caribbean

Military Conquest

Domination:

Administration: The Power of Paper

Church: Friars, Bishops, and the State

Society: Old Orders Changed

Economy: Ships and Silver

Photo Essay

Mature Colonies

The Seventeenth Century: A Slacker Grip

Challenges to Spain

Production, Taxes, and Trade in America

Indians in the Heartlands: Making their own Space

Indians on the Peripheries

Africans

Women

Arts, Formal and Popular

Varieties of Mestizaje

Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Reformed or Deformed?

People, Production, and Commerce

Bourbon Revisions of Rules and Principles

Society: Change, and Protest

Creole Self-Awareness: Rejection and Reception of Europe

The Eighteenth-Century Balance

Portugal in America

Colonial Brazil: Slaves, Sugar, and Gold

Explorers, Interlopers, and Settlers

Indians and Jesuits

Sugar

People and Government

Outsiders: The Dutch, and Others, in Brazil

Movement Inland: Slavers, Prospectors, and Stockmen

Seventeenth-Century Society

The Indians and Father Vieira

Government and Economy in the Seventeenth Century

The Age of Gold

Pombal and Reform

Products of Mind and Sensibility

Independence and Beyond:

Independence

Epilogue

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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