A history of Latin America
Subtitle: c. 1450 to the present
By: Peter Bakewell.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The Blackwell history of the world
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 613
Subjects: Latin America -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 583-604) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lands and climates; title: American peoples; title: Iberia; title: Columbus and others; title: Experiments in the Caribbean; title: Military conquests; title: Administration : the power of paper; title: Church : friars, bishops and the state; title: Society : old orders changed; title: Economy : ships and silver; title: The seventeenth century : a slacker grip; title: Eighteenth-century Spanish America : reformed or deformed?; title: Colonial Brazil : slaves, sugar and gold; title: Independence; title: Adrift in storms : caudillos and penury; title: Calmer waters and a new course : oligarchs and exports; title: People, politics, and economies since 1930.