Early Latin America : A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Hardcover)

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.