List of Illustrations. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. Conventions Used. Maps. Part I: Bases: 1. Lands and Climates. 2. American Peoples. 3. Iberia. 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. Part IV: Mature Colonies: 11. The Seventeenth Century: A Slacker Grip. 12. Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Reformed or Deformed? Part V: Portugal in America: 13. Colonial Brazil: Slaves, Sugar, and Gold. Part VI: Self-Discovery: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: 14. Independence. 15. Adrift in Storms: Caudillos and Penury. 16. Calmer Waters and a New Course: Oligarchs and Exports. 17. Epilogue. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has been teaching in the United States since 1975, first at the University of New Mexico and since 1989 at Emory University. His previous works include Silvermining and Society in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546-1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga (1988).
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