List of Illustrations. Series Editor's Preface. Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. Conventions Used. Maps. Part I: Bases: 1. Lands and Climates. 2. American Peoples. 3. Iberia. Part II: Approaches: 4. Columbus and Others. 5. Experiments in the Caribbean. 6. Military Conquests. 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. People, Economics and Politics. 18. Epilogue. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Chronologies. Index.
Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has taught in the United States since 1975, at the University of New Mexico, Emory University, and now, since 1999, at Southern Methodist University. His major research and writing has centered on the history of silver mining, and related topics, in colonial Spanish America. His previous works include Silver Mining and Society and Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546-1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: the Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga (1988).
"Bakewell's revision reaches the present, turning what is already an outstanding treatment of the historical substrata of a vast region into the most enterprising and engaging single-volume history of Latin America... the book offers intriguing surprises and consistently intelligent choices and challenges." Kenneth Mills, Princeton University "A first rate survey, which I find works extremely well with the beginner as well as the more advanced student. Highly recommended." James Casey, University of East Anglia "[This book] provides a sophisticated analysis blended with a cogent writing style. Students will appreciate the well organized focus." Dr Salvador Rivera,State University of New York
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