The Cambridge History of Latin America [Hardcover]

Examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.Volume 2 in The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.Volume 2 in The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.Volume 2 in The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the history of colonial Latin America before its independence.List of maps; List of figures; Note on currency and measurement; General preface; preface to volumes I and II; Part I. Population: 1. The population of colonial Spanish America Nicol?s S?nchez-Albornoz; 2. The population of colonial Brazil Maria Luiza Marc?lio; Part II. Economic and Social Structures: Spanish America: 3. The urban development of colonial Spanish America Richard M. Morse; 4. Mining in colonial Spanish America Peter Bakewell; 5. The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain Enrique Florescano; 6. The rural economy and society of colonial Spanish South America Magnus M?rner; 7. Aspects of the internal economy of colonial Spanish America: labour; taxation; distribution and exchange Murdo J. MacLeod; 8. Social organization and social change in colonial Spanish America James Lockhart; 9. Women in Spanish American colonial society Asunci?n Lavrin; 10. Africans in Spanish American colonial society Frederick P. Bowser; 11. Indian societies under Spanish rule Charles Gibson; Part III. Economic and Social Structures: Brazil: 12. Colonial Brazil, c.1580c.1750: plantations and peripheries Stuart B. Schwartz; 13. Indians and the frontier in colonial Brazil John Hemming; 14. Colonial Brazil: the gold cycle, c.16901750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood; 15. Late colonial Brazil, 17501808; Part IV. Intellectual and Cultural Life: 16. Literature and intellectual life in colonial Spanish America Jacques Lafaye; 17. The architecture and art of colonial Spanish America Dami?n Bay?n; 18. The architecture and art of colonial Brazil l«