The Cambridge History of Latin America
Volume 2 in The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.
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December 1984Hardback
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 MarcÃlio
- 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.