A History of Latin America to 1825, 3rd Edition

List of Maps.

List of Photo Essays.

Series Editor’s Preface.

Preface to the Third Edition.

Conventions Used in the Text.

Maps.

Part I: Bases:

1. Lands and Climates.

2. American Peoples.

Ancient Peoples.

Formative Peoples.

Classic Peoples.

Aztecs and Incas.

Less Known Cultures.

3. Iberia and Africa.

Part II: Approaches:

4. Columbus and Others.

5. Experiment in the Caribbean.

6. Military Conquest.

Part III: Domination:

7. Administration: The Power of Paper.

8. Church: Friars, Bishops, and the State.

9. Society: Old Orders Changed.

10. Economy: Ships and Silver.

Photo Essay.

Part IV: Mature Colonies:

11. The Seventeenth Century: A Slacker Grip.

Challenges to Spain.

Production, Taxes, and Trade in America.

Indians in the Heartlands: Making their own Space.

Indians on the Peripheries.

Africans.

Women.

Arts, Formal and Popular.

Varieties of Mestizaje.

12. Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Reformed or Deformed?

People, Production, and Commerce.

Bourbon Revisions of Rules and Principles.

Society: Change, and Protest.

Creole Self-Awareness: Rejection and Reception of Europe.

The Eighteenth-Century Balance.

Part V Portugal in America.

13. Colonial Brazil: Slaves, Sugar, and Gold.

Explorers, Interlopers, and Settlers.

Indians and Jesuits.

Sugar.

People and Government.

Outsiders: The Dutch, and Others, in Brazil.

Movement Inland: Slavers, Prospectors, and Stockmen.

Seventeenth-Century Society.

The Indians and Father Vieira.

Government and Economy in the Seventeenth Century.

The Age of Gold.

Pombal and Reform.

Products of Mind and Sensibility.

Part VI: Independence and Beyond:

14 Independence.

15 Epilogue.

Glossary.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.