Readings in Latin American history
Publisher: Duke University
Published: 1985
Language: eng
Description: 2 volumes.
ISBN 082230645X (v. 1)
ISBN 0822306379 (pbk. : v. 1)
ISBN 0822306468 (v. 2)
ISBN 0822306387 (pbk. : v. 2)
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. The formative years. The problem of conflicting Spanish ideologies in the sixteenth century / John Leddy Phelan -- The rise and fall of Indian-white alliances : a regional view of "conquest" history / Steve J. Stern -- Conquistador y pestilencia : the first New World pandemic and the fall of the great Indian empires / Alfred W. Crosby -- Encomienda and hacienda : the evolution of the great estate in the Spanish Indies / James Lockhart -- Carting in the Hispanic world : an example of divergent development / David R. Ringrose -- Mexico in the seventeenth century : transition of a colonial society / Richard Boyer -- Landed society in New Spain : a view from the south / William B. Taylor -- Colonial silver mining : Mexico and Peru / D. A. Brading and Harry E. Cross -- Social climbers : changing patterns of mobility among the Indians of colonial Peru / Karen Spalding -- Trade and navigation in the seventeenth-century Viceroyalty of Peru / L. A. Clayton -- Magistracy and society in colonial Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Women and society in colonial Brazil / A. J. R. Russell-Wood -- Government and elite in late colonial Mexico / D. A. Brading -- Haciendas and villages in late colonial Morelos / Cheryl English Martin -- Women and crime : Buenos Aires, 1757-97 / Susan Migden Socolow -- Civil disorders and popular protests in late colonial New Granada / Anthony F. McFarlane -- The problem of the roots of revolution : society and intellectual ferment in Mexico on the eve of independence / Peggy K. Liss -- The last viceroys of New Spain and Peru : an appraisal / Timothy E. Anna -- Nationality, nationalism, and supranationalism in the writings of Simon Bolivar / Simon Collier -- Claims of political tradition / Richard M. Morse.; title: Vol. 2. The modern experience. José Maria Luis Mora and the structure of Mexican liberalism / Charles A. Hale -- The political economy of the Colombian presidential election of 1897 / Charles W. Bergquist -- Politics, parties, and elections in Argentina's province of Buenos Aires, 1912-42 / Richard J. Walter -- Populism in Peru : APRA, the formative years / Steve Stein -- Patrons and clients in the bureaucracy : career networks in Mexico / Merilee S. Grindle -- Political leadership and regime breakdown : Brazil / Alfred Stepan -- Political legitimacy in Spanish America / Peter H. Smith -- Brazilian messianism and national institutions : a reappraisal of Canudos and Joaseiro / Ralph Della Cava -- Liberation theology and Christian radicalism in contemporary Latin America / Michael Dodson -- Rural criminality and social conflict in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires province / Richard W. Slatta -- Debt servitude in rural Guatemala, 1876-1936 / David McCreery -- Rural workers in Spanish America : problems of peonage and oppression / Arnold J. Bauer -- Gradual abolition and the dynamics of slave emancipation in Cuba, 1868-86 / Rebecca J. Scott -- Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Toward a comparative analysis of race relations since abolition in Brazil and the United States / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Women's work in Mexico City, 1753-1848 / Silvia M. Arrom -- The "woman question" in Cuba : an analysis of material constraints on its solution / Muriel Nazzari -- Religion, collectivism, and intrahistory : the Peruvian ideal of dependence / Fredrick B. Pike -- Overcoming technological dependence in Latin America / James H. Street -- Secularization, integration, and rationalization : some perspectives from Latin American thought / Edward J. Williams -- Social commitment and the Latin American writer  / Mario Vargas Llosa.