Title: A history of Latin America : from the beginnings to the present /
Authors: Herring, Hubert Clinton, 1889-; Herring, Helen Baldwin,; Herring, Helen Baldwin,
Publisher: Knopf,
Year: 1968
Subjects: Latin America History.
Contents: 1. This land, this people. --2. The Indian background. --3. The Iberian background. --4. The African background. --5. Discovery and conquest. --6. Introducing the Spanish colonial period. --7. Spain's government in America: kings, viceroys, and other important people. --8. The church in Spanish America. --9. Man, his land, and his labor in Spanish America. --10. The getting and the spending: the economic life of Spanish America. --11. The formation of Spanish American culture. --12. The Portuguese empire in Brazil.