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Title The Cambridge history of Latin America. Vol. 1, Colonial Latin America / edited by Leslie Bethell
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©1984

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 623 pages)
Series The Cambridge history of Latin America
Cambridge history of Latin America.
Contents PART ONE AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST -- Mesoamerica before 1519 / Miguel León-Portilla -- The Indians of the Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century / Mary W. Helms -- Andean societies before 1532 / John Murra -- The Indians of southern South America in the middle of the sixteenth century / Jorge Hidalgo -- The Indians of Brazil in 1500 / John Hemming -- PART TWO EUROPE AND AMERICA -- The Spanish Conquest and settlement of America / J.H. Elliott -- The Indian and the Spanish Conquest / Nathan Wachtel -- The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500-80 / H.B. Johnson -- Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / J.H. Elliott -- Spain and America: the Atlantic trade, 1492-1720 / Murdo J. Macleod -- Bourbon Spain and its American empire / D.A. Brading -- Portugal and Brazil: political and economic structures of empire, 1580-1750 / Frédéric Mauro -- Portugal and Brazil: imperial re-organization, 1750-1808 / Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva -- PART THREE THE CHURCH IN AMERICA -- The Catholic church in colonial Spanish America / Josep M. Barnadas -- The Catholic church in colonial Brazil / Eduardo Hoornaert
Summary This wide ranging history of Latin America begins with colonial Latin America and the native American population. The subsequent volumes cover each century up until the late 20th century with contributions from experts in the subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History
Catholic Church -- History.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Indians -- History.
Indians
SUBJECT Latin America -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074895
Latin America -- History -- To 1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bethell, Leslie
ISBN 9781139055161
113905516X
9780511467998
0511467990
9781139055161
Other Titles Colonial Latin America
History of Latin America