The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History

by Moya, Jose C.

• ISBN13: 9780195166200
• ISBN10: 0195166205
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780199397402
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This Oxford Handbook surveys the large and growing field of Latin American history by bringing together the principal themes and approaches over the past three decades. Essays address indigenous peoples of the region, colonial history, independence movements, rural history, slavery and race, European and Asian immigration, labor movements, gender and sexuality, popular religion, family and childhood, economic history, politics, and disease and medicine. The contributors include top scholars in the field.

Author Biography

Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University. Author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (California, 1998).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction, Jose C. Moya
1. Historiography of New Spain, Kevin Terraciano and Lisa Sousa
2. Colonial Spanish South America, Lyman L. Johnson and Susan Migden Socolow
3. The Historiography of Early Modern Brazil, Stuart B. Schwartz
4. Sexuality in Colonial Spanish America, Asunción Lavrin
5. Independence in Latin America, Jeremy Adelman
6. Slavery in Brazil, João José Reis and Herbert Klein
7. Postcolonial Brazil, Barbara Weinstein
8. Race in Post-Abolition Afro-Latin America, Kim D. Butler and Aline Helg
9. Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States in Spanish America, 1780-2000, Florencia E. Mallon
10. Rural History, Eric Van Young
11. Latin American Labor History, James P. Brennan
12. Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, Donna J. Guy
13. Family Matters: The Historiography of Latin American Families, Nara Milanich
14. The New Economic History of Latin America: Evolution and Recent Contributions, John H. Coatsworth and William R. Summerhill
15. Disease, Medicine, and Health, 1500-1950, Diego Armus and Adrián López Denis
16. Popular Religion in Latin American Historiography, Reinaldo L. Román and Pamela Voekel
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