Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil

Abstract

List of tables, figures and maps Preface Part I. The Context: 1. Iberian ways 2. Indigenous ways Part II. Origins and Early Maturity: 3. From islands to mainland: the Caribbean phase and subsequent conquests 4. Conquest society: central areas 5. Maturity in the Spanish Indies: central areas 6. Brazilian beginnings 7. Brazil in the sugar cane 8. The fringes Part III. Reorientations: 9. Late colonial times in the Spanish Indies 10. Brazil in the age of gold and absolutism 11. Epilogue: the coming of independence Bibliography Index.