Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson
This text is a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World from their pre-conquest background to the wave of independence in the early nineteenth century. This new tenth edition includes improved and expanded discussions of daily life in colonial Latin America, helping
students gain a deeper understanding of the facinating, rich, and often tragic history of the cultures, the people, and the struggles that have played a part in shaping contemporary Latin America.
MAPS
PREFACE
1. America, Iberia, and Africa Before the Conquest
Amerindian Civilizations on the Eve of European Conquest
The Iberian World in the Late Fifteenth Century
Atlantic Africa in the Fifteenth Century
First Encounters in the New World
2.The Age of
Conquest
The Conquest of Mexico
The Conquest of Peru
The Ebb Tide of Conquest
Black Participation in the Age of Conquest
Conundrums and the Columbian Exchange
3. Ruling New World Empires
Imperial Organization and Administration
The Colonial Church
The
Inquisition
4. Population and Labor
Changes in the Colonial Population
Indian Labor
Slavery and the Slave Trade
5. Production, Exchange, and Defense
The Mining and Sugar Industries
International Trade and Taxation
Defense
The Colonial Economy
6.
The Social Economy: Societies of Caste and Class
Evolution of Colonial Societies
The Elites
Urban and Rural Middle Groups
The Broad Base of Colonial Society
7. The Family and Society
Family: The Foundation of Colonial Society
Women in Colonial Societies and
Economies
The Culture of Honor
8. Living in an Empire
Colonial Settings
Daily Life in the Colonies
The Cultural Milieu
9. Imperial Expansion
The Spanish Colonies: From the War of Succession to the Loss of Havana
Brazil in the Age of Expansion
10. The Era
of Caroline Reforms
Reconfiguration of Empire
Church, State, and the Enlightenment
Population Growth and Social Change
Colonial Economies in the Reform Era
Protest and Insurrections
11. Crisis and Political Revolution
The World Turned Upside Down
An Era of
War and Crisis for Spain and Portugal
Governments of Resistance and Political Revolution, 1808-12
12. From Empire to Independence
Ferdinand and the Failure of Absolutism
Independence in Spanish America
Portugal and Brazil in an Era of Revolution
Cuba: The "Ever Faithful
Isle"
Spain After the Loss of the Mainland Empire
13. Epilogue
The Economy
Government and Political Life
Social Change
A NOTE ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE AND SUGGESTED READINGS
GLOSSARY
ILLUSTRATION SOURCES AND CREDITS
MONARCHS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
INDEX
MAPS:
MAP 1 Topographical Map of Latin America
MAP 2 Major Amerindian cultures
MAP 3 The Iberian Peninsula in the mid-fifteenth century
MAP 4 West and West Central Africa in the early sixteenth century
MAP 5 Major Territorial Divisions in 1650
MAP 6 Colonial
Trade
MAP 7 Colonial Latin America: Political Organization
MAP 8 Latin America in 1830
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Mark A. Burkholder is Kenan Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Ph. D. University of Michigan). His books include: Challenges to Solidarity (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009); Labor Rights are Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 2007); Proletarians of
the North (University of California Press, 1998). Lyman L. Johnson is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Ph. D. University of Connecticut).
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