Latin America : A Social History of the Colonial Period (with InfoTrac) by Jonathan Brown

Latin America : A Social History of the Colonial Period (with InfoTrac) by Jonathan Brown

LATIN AMERICA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD covers Latin America's pre-Colombian and colonial periods, including its civil war and struggle for independence. The textbook presents Latin American history from the "bottom up,"emphasizing the stories of indigenous peoples, African slaves, and mixed-race workers and peasants. The cultural diversity and racial mixture unique to the colonial experience are expressed in illustrations, tables, charts, and up-to-date bibliographies, as well as in the many historical documents that depict the contributions of ordinary people.

Part I: THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS1. The Ancient Mesoamericans. 2. The Ancient South Americans. 3. Iberian Conquest and Settlement. Part II: ESTABLISHING THE COLONIAL SOCIAL HERITAGE. 4. Colonial Institutions. 5. The Iberian-American World. 6. Native Americans. 7. African Americans. Part III: ECONOMIC FLORESCENCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 8. Economic and Social Change in Spanish North America. 9. The Working People of Mexico. 10. The Emergence of Spanish South America. 11. Rebellion in the Andes. 12. Brazil?s Age of Gold. 13. The Haitian Social Revolution. Part IV: THE AGE OF REFORM AND INDEPENDENCE. 14. The Failure to Avert the Colonial Crisis. 15. Revolution and Independence.

Jonathan C. Brown is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published four single-authored books: A SOCIOECONOMIC HISTORY OF ARGENTINA, 1776-1860 (1979); OIL AND REVOUTION IN MEXICO (1993), LATIN AMERICA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD (2000), and A BRIEF HISTORY OF ARGENTINA (2003). Two of these books have been translated and published in Latin America. His first book on Argentina, published by Cambridge University Press, won the Bolton Prize, while the colonial volume won the Hamilton Prize of the University Cooperative Society. Brown also edited a collection of essays on workers and populism in Latin America and co-edited books on the Mexican oil industry and on Argentine social history. He has published articles in the AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, the LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW, the HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, and in Mexican and Argentine academic journals. His long-range research project concerns the formation of the Mexican oil workers union. Between 1988 and 1998, Brown directed numerous seminars in U.S. studies for Latin American scholars, as well as a university affiliation project in U.S. studies with the Universidad de Chile that was funded by the United States Information Agency.

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ISBN 13	9780534642334
ISBN 10	0534642330
Title	Latin America : A Social History of the Colonial Period (with InfoTrac)
Author	Jonathan Brown
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2004-07-01
Number of pages	528
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