Latin America in colonial times /
Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in colonial times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization, Latin America, emerged...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The colonial crucible
- Pt. 1. Before the great encounter. Native America ; Castile and Portugal ; Atlantic Africa
- Pt. 2. The long conquest. The Iberian imperial dawn ; Native American empires ; The chain of conquest ; The incomplete conquest
- Pt. 3. The colonial middle. Native communities ; Black communities ; The religious renaissance ; Defining deviancy ; Daily life in city and country
- Pt. 4. The age of change. War and reform ; Late-colonial times ; Independence
- Conclusion: The Latin American puzzle.