The Cambridge History of Latin America

Examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.

Leslie Bethell (Edited by)

9780521245166, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 December 1984

932 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 5.9 cm, 1.43 kg

"a truly impressive project ... Leslie Bethell is to be complemented on the overall high quality of the 34 contributions ... the organization and format of these volumes and the Herculean labor of general editorship." - Southeastem Latin Americanist

Volume 2 in The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.

List of maps
List of figures
Note on currency and measurement
General preface
preface to volumes I and II
Part I. Population: 1. The population of colonial Spanish America Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz
2. The population of colonial Brazil Maria Luiza Marcílio
Part II. Economic and Social Structures: Spanish America: 3. The urban development of colonial Spanish America Richard M. Morse
4. Mining in colonial Spanish America Peter Bakewell
5. The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain Enrique Florescano
6. The rural economy and society of colonial Spanish South America Magnus Mörner
7. Aspects of the internal economy of colonial Spanish America: labour
taxation
distribution and exchange Murdo J. MacLeod
8. Social organization and social change in colonial Spanish America James Lockhart
9. Women in Spanish American colonial society Asunción Lavrin
10. Africans in Spanish American colonial society Frederick P. Bowser
11. Indian societies under Spanish rule Charles Gibson
Part III. Economic and Social Structures: Brazil: 12. Colonial Brazil, c.1580–c.1750: plantations and peripheries Stuart B. Schwartz
13. Indians and the frontier in colonial Brazil John Hemming
14. Colonial Brazil: the gold cycle, c.1690–1750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood
15. Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
Part IV. Intellectual and Cultural Life: 16. Literature and intellectual life in colonial Spanish America Jacques Lafaye
17. The architecture and art of colonial Spanish America Damián Bayón
18. The architecture and art of colonial Brazil J. B. Bury
19. The music of colonial Spanish America Robert Stevenson
A note on the music of colonial Brazil Robert Stevenson
Bibliographical essays
Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]