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1 online resource |
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The Cambridge History of Latin America Ser |
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Cambridge history of Latin America.
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| Contents |
PART ONE POPULATION -- The population of colonial Spanish America / Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz -- The population of colonial Brazil / Maria Luiza Marcílio -- PART TWO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES: SPANISH AMERICA -- The urban development of colonial Spanish America / Richard M. Morse -- Mining in colonial Spanish America / Peter Bakewell -- The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain / Enrique Florescano -- The rural economy and society of colonial Spanish South America / Magnus Mörner -- Aspects of the internal economy of colonial Spanish America: labour; taxation; distribution and exchange / Murdo J. Macleod -- Social organization and social change in colonial Spanish America / James Lockhart -- Women in Spanish American colonial society / Asunción Lavrin -- Africans in Spanish American colonial society / Frederick P. Bowser -- Indian societies under Spanish rule / Charles Gibson -- PART THREE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES: BRAZIL -- Colonial Brazil, c. 1580-c. 1750: plantations and peripheries / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Indians and the frontier in colonial Brazil / John Hemming -- Colonial Brazil: the gold cycle, c. 1690-1750 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- Late colonial Brazil, 1750-1808 / Dauril Alden -- PART FOUR INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL LIFE -- Literature and intellectual life in colonial Spanish America / Jacques Lafaye -- A note on literature and intellectual life in colonial Brazil / Leslie Bethell -- The architecture and art of colonial Spanish America / Damián Bayón -- The architecture and art of colonial Brazil / J.B. Bury -- The music of colonial Spanish America / Robert Stevenson -- A note on the music of colonial Brazil / Robert Stevenson |
| Summary |
Annotation The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixtenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international scholarship, The Cambride History of Latin America has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr Leslie Bethell, Reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at University College London. It will be published in eight volumes. Each volume or set of volumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional Cambridge University Press |
| Notes |
English |
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Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History
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Catholic Church -- History.
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Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 |
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Indians -- History.
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Indians.
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Latin America -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074895
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Latin America -- History -- To 1830.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898
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| Subject |
Latin America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780521245166 |
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9781139055178 |
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1139055178 |
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0521245168 |
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