Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period

Jonathan C. Brown

Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005 - History - 501 pages

This comprehensive narrative covers Latin America's pre-Colombian and colonial periods, including its civil war and struggle for independence. Brown's clear, lively prose stresses social history (as opposed to political history). The textbook presents Latin American history from the "bottom up,"emphasizing the stories of indigenous peoples, African slaves, and mixed-race workers and peasants. According to Brown, colonialism was a process of accommodation and conflict between numerous ethnic groups and the European settlers who took control of the land and the people. The cultural diversity and racial mixture unique to the colonial experience find ample expression in illustrations, tables, charts, and up-to-date bibliographies, as well as in the many historical documents that depict the contributions of ordinary people.

Contents

• THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS: 1
• THE ANCIENT MESOAMERICANS: 3
• 1: 4
• CHAPTER: 11
• 2: 23
• 4: 30
• THE ANCIENT SOUTH AMERICANS: 37
• 1: 39
• CHAPTER 3: 43
• 2: 55
• IBERIAN CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT: 77
• 1: 81
• 2: 90
• PART II: 117
• 1: 123
• 2: 144
• CHAPTER 5: 159
• 1: 163
• FAMILY PATRIARCHY: 172
• LABOR SYSTEMS: 181
• CHAPTER 6: 187
• 1: 189
• 355: 208
• ADAPTATION AND RESISTANCE: 215
• 5: 218
• AFRICAN AMERICANS: 226
• 1: 229
• 2: 236
• PART III: 240
• 1: 242
• IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: 253
• CHAPTER 9: 286
• CHAPTER 10: 307
• REBELLION IN THE ANDES: 339
• Letter from Micaela Bastidas to Túpac Amaru: 347
• CHAPTER 12: 351
• BRAZILS AGE OF GOLD: 361
• GOLDS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT: 373
• CHAPTER 13: 376
• THE RISE OF RIO DE JANEIRO AND SÃO PAULO: 379
• THE HAITIAN SOCIAL REVOLUTION: 387
• REVOLT OF THE SLAVES: 395
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 403
• PART IV: 407
• THE FAILURE TO AVERT THE COLONIAL CRISIS: 409
• REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE: 438
• GLOSSARY: 473
• CREDITS: 481
• 276: 490
• 1: 497

About the author

Jonathan C. Brown is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published four single-authored books: A SOCIOECONOMIC HISTORY OF ARGENTINA, 1776-1860 (1979); OIL AND REVOUTION IN MEXICO (1993), LATIN AMERICA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD (2000), and A BRIEF HISTORY OF ARGENTINA (2003). Two of these books have been translated and published in Latin America. His first book on Argentina, published by Cambridge University Press, won the Bolton Prize, while the colonial volume won the Hamilton Prize of the University Cooperative Society. Brown also edited a collection of essays on workers and populism in Latin America and co-edited books on the Mexican oil industry and on Argentine social history. He has published articles in the AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, the LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW, the HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, and in Mexican and Argentine academic journals. His long-range research project concerns the formation of the Mexican oil workers union. Between 1988 and 1998, Brown directed numerous seminars in U.S. studies for Latin American scholars, as well as a university affiliation project in U.S. studies with the Universidad de Chile that was funded by the United States Information Agency.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period
• Author: Jonathan C. Brown
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005
• ISBN: 0534642330, 9780534642334
• Length: 501 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Latin America / General; History / Social History; Social Science / Sociology / General