Table of Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1Thomas H. Holloway
1 Early Population Flows in the Western Hemisphere 10Tom D. Dillehay
2 Mesoamerica 28John Monaghan and Andrew R. Wyatt
3 Tradition and Change in the Central Andes 42Jeffrey Quilter
4 Portuguese and Spaniards in the Age of European Expansion 58William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips
5 Exploration and Conquest 73Patricia Seed
6 Colonial Brazil (1500–1822) 89Hal Langfur
7 Institutions of the Spanish American Empire in the Hapsburg Era 106Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
8 Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Spanish American Society 124Kevin Terraciano
9 Slavery in the Americas 146Franklin W. Knight
10 Religion, Society, and Culture in the Colonial Era 162Rachel Sarah O’Toole
11 Imperial Rivalries and Reforms 178John Fisher
12 The Process of Spanish American Independence 195Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
13 New Nations and New Citizens: Political Culture in Nineteenth-century Mexico, Peru, and Argentina 215Sarah C. Chambers
14 Imperial Brazil (1822–89) 230Judy Bieber
15 Abolition and Afro-Latin Americans 247Aline Helg
16 Land, Labor, Production, and Trade: Nineteenth-century Economic and Social Patterns 264Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
17 Modernization and Industrialization 285Colin M. Lewis
18 Practical Sovereignty: The Caribbean Region and the Rise of US Empire 307Mary A. Renda
19 The Mexican Revolution 330Adrian A. Bantjes
20 Populism and Developmentalism 347Joel Wolfe
21 The Cuban Revolution 365Luis Martínez-Fernández
22 The National Security State 386David R. Mares
23 Central America in Upheaval 406Julie A. Charlip
24 Culture and Society: Latin America since 1900 424Robert McKee Irwin
25 Environmental History of Modern Latin America 443Lise Sedrez
26 Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America, 1820–2000 461Nara Milanich
27 Identity, Ethnicity, and “Race” 480Peter Wade
28 Social and Economic Impact of Neoliberalism 494Duncan Green
Index 512
