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Informationen zum Autor Thomas H. Holloway is Professor of Latin American History at the University of California at Davis, where he was Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas from 2000 to 2007. He served as President of the Latin American Studies Association, 2000-01, and Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History, 2002-07. He has taught widely on Latin American history since 1974. His research focuses mainly on the social and economic history of Brazil. His previous books include Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934 (1980) and Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-century city (1993). Klappentext This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America in all its diversity. Comprising 28 chapters by leading world experts, the book presents a single source of information and analysis for scholars and students interested in Latin America's past and is the ideal starting point for further study. Latin America is defined as the vast region stretching from the middle of North America through the entire tropic belt, and extending south over plains to the glaciers and fjords of the southernmost inhabited regions of the earth. In the pre-Columbian era, the area incorporated hundreds of distinct language groups; today, there are still more than 20 independent nations in the region. This Companion recognizes this variety, while providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage of the basic historical trends and new areas of scholarly interest. Zusammenfassung The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures, Tables, and Maps vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Thomas H. Holloway 1 Early Population Flows in the Western Hemisphere 10 Tom D. Dillehay 2 Mesoamerica 28 John Monaghan and Andrew R. Wyatt 3 Tradition and Change in the Central Andes 42 Jeffrey Quilter 4 Portuguese and Spaniards in the Age of European Expansion 58 William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips 5 Exploration and Conquest 73 Patricia Seed 6 Colonial Brazil (1500-1822) 89 Hal Langfur 7 Institutions of the Spanish American Empire in the Hapsburg Era 106 Susan Elizabeth Ramírez 8 Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Spanish American Society 124 Kevin Terraciano 9 Slavery in the Americas 146 Franklin W. Knight 10 Religion, Society, and Culture in the Colonial Era 162 Rachel Sarah O'Toole 11 Imperial Rivalries and Reforms 178 John Fisher 12 The Process of Spanish American Independence 195 Jaime E. Rodríguez O. 13 New Nations and New Citizens: Political Culture in Nineteenth-century Mexico, Peru, and Argentina 215 Sarah C. Chambers 14 Imperial Brazil (1822-89) 230 Judy Bieber 15 Abolition and Afro-Latin Americans 247 Aline Helg 16 Land, Labor, Production, and Trade: Nineteenth-century Economic and Social Patterns 264 Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago 17 Modernization and Industrialization 285 Colin M. Lewis 18 Practical Sovereignty: The Caribbean Region and the Rise of US Empire 307 Mary A. Renda 19 The Mexican Revolution 330 Adrian A. Bantjes 20 Populism and Developmentalism 347 Joel Wolfe 21 The Cuban Revolution 365 Luis Martínez-Fernández 22 The National Security State 386 David R. Mares 23 Central America in Upheaval 406 Ju...
