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A history of Latin America : c. 1450 to the present / Peter Bakewell.
LIBRA F1410 .B175 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakewell, P. J. (Peter John), 1943-
- Series:
- Blackwell history of the world
- The Blackwell history of the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin America--History.
- Latin America.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 613 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Contents:
- Lands and climates
- American peoples
- Iberia
- Columbus and others
- Experiments in the Caribbean
- Military conquests
- Administration : the power of paper
- Church : friars, bishops and the state
- Society : old orders changed
- Economy : ships and silver
- The seventeenth century : a slacker grip
- Eighteenth-century Spanish America : reformed or deformed?
- Colonial Brazil : slaves, sugar and gold
- Independence
- Adrift in storms : caudillos and penury
- Calmer waters and a new course : oligarchs and exports
- People, economics and politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-604) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631231617
- 0631231609
- OCLC:
- 50959072
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