The Cambridge History of Latin America
The Cambridge History of Latin America
£236.00
GBPThe Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international schoarship, the Cambridge History of Latin America has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr Leslie Bethell, reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at University College London. It will be published in eight volumes. Each volume or set of volumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America.
Product details
May 1986Hardback
9780521232258
696 pages
236 × 161 × 44 mm
1.12kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914 William Glade
- 2. Latin America and the international economy from the First World War to the World Depression Rosemary Thorp
- 3. Latin America, the United States and the European powers, 1830–1930 Robert Freeman Smith
- 4. The population of Latin America, 1850–1930 Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz
- 5. Rural Spanish America, 1870–1930 Arnold Bauer
- 6. Plantation economies and societies in the Spanish Caribbean, 1860–1930 Manuel Moreno Fraginals
- 7. The growth of Latin American cities, 1870–1930 James R. Scobie
- 8. Industry in Latin America before 1930 Colin M. Lewis
- 9. The urban working class and early Latin American labour movements, 1880–1930 Michael M. Hall, and Hobart A. Spalding Jr
- 10. Political and social ideas in Latin America, 1870–1930 Charles A. Hale
- 11. The literature, music and art of Latin America, 1870–1930 Gerald Martin
- 12. The Catholic Church in Latin America, 1830–1930 John Lynch.
