A history of Latin America : c. 1450 to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakewell, P. J. (Peter John), 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Blackwell history of the world.
Subjects:
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.