A history of Latin America : c. 1450 to the present /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA, USA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Blackwell history of the world.
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Table of Contents:
- Lands and climates
- American peoples
- Iberia
- Columbus and others
- Experiments in the Caribbean
- Military conquests
- Administration : the power of paper
- Church : friars, bishops and the state
- Society : old orders changed
- Economy : ships and silver
- The seventeenth century : a slacker grip
- Eighteenth-century Spanish America : reformed or deformed?
- Colonial Brazil : slaves, sugar and gold
- Independence
- Adrift in storms : caudillos and penury
- Calmer waters and a new course : oligarchs and exports
- People, politics, and economies since 1930.