Middle Period in Latin America : Values and Attitudes in the 17th-19th Centuries / edited by Mark D. Szuchman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szuchman, Mark D., 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Social classes--Australia.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989.

Summary:

Bypassing political independence as a line of demarcation, the authors explore change in Latin America through the use of concepts associated with mentalities and attitudes toward such "idian realities as poverty, love, homestead, death, religion, and political obligation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

The Contributors

Preface

1 The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values in Search of Explanations

2 From Mentalité to Mentality: The Implications of a Novelty

3 The Triumph of Colonial Christianity in the Central Andes: Guilt, Good Conscience, and Indian Piety

4 Death in Western Colonial Mexico: Its Place in Village and Peasant Life

5 The Raw and the Cooked: Elite and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821

6 Between the Kingdom and the Wilderness: The Mentalité of Settlers in Colonial São Paulo

7 Trouble Between Men and Women: Machismo on Nineteenth-Century Estancias

8 A Challenge to the Patriarchs: Love Among the Youth in Nineteenth-Century Argentina

9 The Liberal Concept of Charity: Beneficencia Applied to Puerto Rico, 1821-1868

Index

About The Book

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 19, 2022).

ISBN:

1-68585-594-6

OCLC:

1338019919