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The Cambridge History of Latin America

The Cambridge History of Latin America

The Cambridge History of Latin America

Volume 2: Colonial Latin America
Leslie Bethell
December 1984
2. Colonial Latin America
Hardback
9780521245166

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

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    December 1984
    Hardback
    9780521245166
    932 pages
    236 × 158 × 59 mm
    1.43kg
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    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Contributors
    • Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz, Brazil Maria Luiza Marcílio, Richard M. Morse, Peter Bakewell, Enrique Florescano, Magnus Mörner, Murdo J. MacLeod, James Lockhart, Asunción Lavrin, Frederick P. Bowser, Charles Gibson, Stuart B. Schwartz, Brazil John Hemming, A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Jacques Lafaye, Damián Bayón, J. B. Bury, Robert Stevenson

    • Editor
    • Leslie Bethell