The Cambridge History of Latin America

Table of Contents

List of maps
Note on currency and measurement
Abbreviations
General preface
Preface to volumes 1 and 2
Part I. America on the Eve of the Conquest:
1. Mesoamerica before 1519 Miguel Leon-Portilla
2. The Indians of the Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century Mary W. Helms
3. Andean societies before 1532 John Murra
4. The Indians of southern South America in the middle of the sixteenth century Jorge Hildalgo
5. The Indians of Brazil in 1500 John Hemming
A note on the native American population on the eve of the European invasions Leslie Bethell
Part II. Europe and America:
6. The Spanish Conquest and settlement of America J. H. Elliott
7. The Indian and Spanish conquest Nathan Wachtel
8. The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580 H. B. Johnson
9. Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries J. H. Elliott
10. Spain and America: the Atlantic trade 1492–1720 Murdo J. MacLeod
11. Bourbon Spain and its American empire D. A. Brading
12. Portugal and Brazil: political and economic structures of empire, 1580–1750 Frédéric Mauro
13. Portugal and Brazil: imperial re-organization, 1750–1808 Andree Mansuy-Diniz Silva
Part III. The Church in America:
14. The Catholic church in colonial Spanish America Josep M. Barnadas
15. The Catholic church in colonial Brazil Eduardo Hoornaert
Bibliographical essays
Index.

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