I - THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST

1 - Mesoamerica before 1519

pp 1-8

2 - The Caribbean and circum-Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century

pp 8-13

3 - The Andes before 1532

pp 13-19

4 - Southern South America in the middle of the sixteenth century

pp 19-24

5 - Brazil in 1500

pp 24-28

II - COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA

1 - The Spanish conquest and settlement of America

pp 29-37

2 - Indian societies and the Spanish conquest

pp 37-42

3 - Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

pp 42-50

4 - Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720

pp 50-56

5 - Spain and America in the eighteenth century

pp 56-59

6 - Population

pp 59-66

7 - Urban development

pp 66-78

8 - Mining

pp 78-82

9 - The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain

pp 82-89

10 - The rural economy and society of Spanish South America

pp 89-93

11 - Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange

pp 93-100

12 - Social organization and social change

pp 100-104

13 - Indian societies under Spanish rule

pp 104-112

14 - Africans in Spanish American colonial society

pp 112-127

15 - Women in Spanish American colonial society

pp 127-142

16 - The Catholic church

pp 142-150

17 - Literature and intellectual life

pp 150-153

18 - Architecture and art

pp 153-160

19 - Music

pp 160-162

III - COLONIAL BRAZIL

1 - The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580

pp 163-170

2 - Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750

pp 170-174