Latin America and Its People, Combined Volume
ISBN: 9780205520534 | 0205520537
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Of>Latin America and Its People looks at the whole of Latin America in a thematic rather than country-by-country approach. This engaging textbook emphasizes the stories of the diverse people of Latin America, their everyday lives, and the issues that affected them. Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Cheryl Martin and Mark Wasserman, Latin America and Its People presents a fresh interpretative survey of Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It examines the many institution... MORE
| List of Features | |
| List of Maps and Color Plates | |
| Preface About the Authors | |
| The First Peoples Of The Americas | |
| The First Americans Coming to America | |
| Subsistence Strategies and the Development of Agriculture | |
| Sedentary Communities and Ceremonial Centers | |
| Ceremonial Centers in Mexico and Peru | |
| The Olmec: ldquo;Mother Culturerdquo; of ... MORE | |
| Chaviacute;n de Huantar in Peru | |
| The Cities of Classic Mesoamerica | |
| Monte Albaacute;n Teotihuacan Maya | |
| Civilization in the Classic Era Peru | |
| After Chaviacute;n The Moche | |
| The Nazca Tiwanaku | |
| The Wari Empire Mesoamerica and Peru, 900-1400 C.E. | |
| The Toltecs | |
| The Mixtecs of Oaxaca | |
| The Post-Classic Maya Peru after Tiwanaku and Wari | |
| The World of Early Americans | |
| People and Their Environment Early | |
| Americans and Their Beliefs Communities, States, and War | |
| How Historians Understand Archaeology | |
| Literacy, And The Study Of History | |
| Latin American Lives Pacal The GreaT | |
| King Of Palenque, 603-683 C.E. | |
| Slice of Life The Craft Workers Of Chan Chan, 1400 C.E. | |
| Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans | |
| Americans And Iberians On The Eve Of Contact | |
| Mesoamerica in the Fifteenth Century | |
| The Rise of the Mexica Mexica Statecraft | |
| Mexica Religion Everyday Life in the Time of the Mexica | |
| Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Spanish Invasion | |
| The Andes in the Fifteenth Century | |
| The Rise of the Incas Inca Statecraft | |
| Andean Religion in the Time of the Incas | |
| Everyday Life in the Time of the Incas | |
| The Aztecs and Incas Compared | |
| The Diversity of American Peoples | |
| The Tainos and Caribs | |
| The Tupi of Coastal Brazil | |
| The ldquo;Pueblordquo; Peoples of New Mexico | |
| The Spanish and the Portuguese Centuries of Conquest Medieval | |
| Iberia and the Reconquista | |
| Iberian Monarchies in the Fifteenth Century | |
| The Breakdown of Iberian ldquo;Convivenciardquo; | |
| Iberian Society in the Fifteenth Century | |
| Iberia and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion | |
| How Historians Understand | |
| Counting People In Past Societies | |
| Latin American Lives TANTA CARHUA | |
| Bride Of The Sun | |
| Slice of Life | |
| The Marketplace At Tlatelolco | |
| Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans | |
| The European Conquest Of America | |
| The Europeans Arrive Columbus and the First Encounters | |
| The Caribbean Colonies | |
| The Portuguese in Brazil | |
| The Spanish in Mesoamerica and the Andes Corteacute;s and the Aztecs | |
| The Search for ldquo;Otro Meacute;xicordquo; | |
| The Pizarros and the Incas Military Conquest or Strategic Alliance? | |
| Building a Colonial Society | |
| The Ecological Conquest Conquistadors, Encomenderos, and Native Peoples A Multiracial Society in Formation | |
| The ldquo;Spiritual Conquestrdquo; of Latin America Early Evangelization | |
| The Impact of Evangelization Resistance to Christianity | |
| The Consolidation of Colonial Empires | |
| The Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru | |
| The Spanish Colonial Bureaucracy Royal Government in Brazil | |
| The Church in Spanish America and Brazil | |
| The Spanish and Portuguese Empires Latin American | |
| Lives BARTOLOMEacute; DE LAS CASAS, 1474-1566 | |
| How Historians Understand Malinche And The Uses Of Historical Memory | |
| Slice of Life | |
| The Cuzco Cabildo Founds A Convent, 1551 Conclusion | |
| Learning More About Latin Americans | |
| The Iberiansrsquo; New World | |
| The Lure of Precious Metals | |
| The Silver Boom Labor and Technology in Silver | |
| Mining Procuring a Labor Supply | |
| Gold Mining in Brazil Agriculture | |
| Sugar Plantations Haciendas and Ranches Landownership | |
| Landed Elites Rural Society Trade and Transportation | |
| International Commerce Overland | |
| Transport Merchants Mercantile Restrictions | |
| Cities and Towns in the Iberiansrsquo; New World | |
| Capital Cities Provincial Capitals and Other | |
| Towns Urban Amenities Urban Working Classes | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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