Holloway A Companion to Latin American History

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9164-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten, E-Book

The Companion to Latin American History collects the work ofleading experts in the field to create a single-source overview ofthe diverse history and current trends in the study of LatinAmerica.
* Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of LatinAmerica
* Written by the top international experts in the field
* 28 chapters come together as a superlative single source ofinformation for scholars and students
* Recognizes the breadth and diversity of Latin American historyby providing systematic chronological and geographicalcoverage
* Covers both historical trends and new areas of interest

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holloway, Thomas H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Thomas H. Holloway
1 Early Population Flows in the Western Hemisphere 10
Tom D. Dillehay
2 Mesoamerica 28
John Monaghan and Andrew R. Wyatt
3 Tradition and Change in the Central Andes 42
Jeffrey Quilter
4 Portuguese and Spaniards in the Age of European Expansion58
William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips
5 Exploration and Conquest 73
Patricia Seed
6 Colonial Brazil (1500-1822) 89
Hal Langfur
7 Institutions of the Spanish American Empire in the HapsburgEra 106
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
8 Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Spanish American Society124
Kevin Terraciano
9 Slavery in the Americas 146
Franklin W. Knight
10 Religion, Society, and Culture in the Colonial Era 162
Rachel Sarah O'Toole
11 Imperial Rivalries and Reforms 178
John Fisher
12 The Process of Spanish American Independence 195
Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
13 New Nations and New Citizens: Political Culture inNineteenth-century Mexico, Peru, and Argentina 215
Sarah C. Chambers
14 Imperial Brazil (1822-89) 230
Judy Bieber
15 Abolition and Afro-Latin Americans 247
Aline Helg
16 Land, Labor, Production, and Trade: Nineteenth-centuryEconomic and Social Patterns 264
Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
17 Modernization and Industrialization 285
Colin M. Lewis
18 Practical Sovereignty: The Caribbean Region and the Rise ofUS Empire 307
Mary A. Renda
19 The Mexican Revolution 330
Adrian A. Bantjes
20 Populism and Developmentalism 347
Joel Wolfe
21 The Cuban Revolution 365
Luis Martínez-Fernández
22 The National Security State 386
David R. Mares
23 Central America in Upheaval 406
Julie A. Charlip
24 Culture and Society: Latin America since 1900 424
Robert McKee Irwin
25 Environmental History of Modern Latin America 443
Lise Sedrez
26 Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America, 1820-2000461
Nara Milanich
27 Identity, Ethnicity, and "Race" 480
Peter Wade
28 Social and Economic Impact of Neoliberalism 494
Duncan Green
Index 512

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas H. Holloway is Professor of Latin American History at the University of California at Davis, where he was Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas from 2000 to 2007. He served as President of the Latin American Studies Association, 2000-01, and Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History, 2002-07. He has taught widely on Latin American history since 1974. His research focuses mainly on the social and economic history of Brazil. His previous books include Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934 (1980) and Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-century city (1993).