History of Latin America

Peter Bakewell

Wiley, Sep 1, 2003 - History - 640 pages

This complete history of South and Middle America is now updated to provide fuller coverage of twentieth-century developments in politics and economics, as well as social and cultural life.

• A complete history of Latin America from pre-conquest to the present-day.
• Second edition includes new preface, updated bibliography and a new chapter on the 20th century.
• Covers political, economic, social and cultural history.

About the author

Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has taught in the United States since 1975, at the University of New Mexico, Emory University, and now, since 1999, at Southern Methodist University. His major research and writing has centered on the history of silver mining, and related topics, in colonial Spanish America. His previous works include Silver Mining and Society and Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí: the Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga (1988).

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of Latin America; Blackwell History of the World
• Author: Peter Bakewell
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2003
• ISBN: 0631231617, 9780631231615
• Length: 640 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / World