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Klappentext The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international schoarship, the Cambridge History of Latin America has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr Leslie Bethell, reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at University College London. It will be published in eight volumes. Each volume or set of volumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America! the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti)! Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Latin America and the international economy, 1870-1914 William Glade; 2. Latin America and the international economy from the First World War to the World Depression Rosemary Thorp; 3. Latin America, the United States and the European powers, 1830-1930 Robert Freeman Smith; 4. The population of Latin America, 1850-1930 Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz; 5. Rural Spanish America, 1870-1930 Arnold Bauer; 6. Plantation economies and societies in the Spanish Caribbean, 1860-1930 Manuel Moreno Fraginals; 7. The growth of Latin American cities, 1870-1930 James R. Scobie; 8. Industry in Latin America before 1930 Colin M. Lewis; 9. The urban working class and early Latin American labour movements, 1880-1930 Michael M. Hall, and Hobart A. Spalding Jr; 10. Political and social ideas in Latin America, 1870-1930 Charles A. Hale; 11. The literature, music and art of Latin America, 1870-1930 Gerald Martin; 12. The Catholic Church in Latin America, 1830-1930 John Lynch....
