Product Description

This complete history of South and Middle America is now updated to provide fuller coverage of twentieth–century developments in politics and economics, as well as social and cultural life.

• A complete history of Latin America from pre–conquest to the present–day.
  
• Second edition includes new preface, updated bibliography and a new chapter on the 20th century.
  
• Covers political, economic, social and cultural history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268155 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Review
"Bakewell’s revision reaches the present, turning what is already an outstanding treatment of the historical substrata of a vast region into the most enterprising and engaging single–volume history of Latin America... the book offers intriguing surprises and consistently intelligent choices and challenges." Kenneth Mills, Princeton University

"A first rate survey, which I find works extremely well with the beginner as well as the more advanced student. Highly recommended." James Casey, University of East Anglia

"[This book] provides a sophisticated analysis blended with a cogent writing style. Students will appreciate the well organized focus." Dr Salvador Rivera,State University of New York

From the Back Cover
This is the second edition of Peter Bakewell’s highly successful complete history of South and Central America, which now offers fuller coverage of twentieth–century developments.

The book provides a vivid, analytical narrative and is clearly and extensively illustrated with maps and photographs. It describes the environment and peoples of the region before 1500, and the Iberian society which produced the conquerors; presents the story of Columbus’s voyages and their aftermath in conquest by the Spanish and Portuguese; and examines the means of European domination, the mature colonial societies of Spain and Portugal and their patterns of development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For the second edition the author has revised and greatly expanded the book’s coverage of the twentieth century, and has included additional illustrations covering the twentieth century and updates to the bibliography to include publications since 1997.

This second edition now provides a complete history of the region suitable for all students of Latin America.

About the Author
Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has taught in the United States since 1975, at the University of New Mexico, Emory University, and now, since 1999, at Southern Methodist University. His major research and writing has centered on the history of silver mining, and related topics, in colonial Spanish America. His previous works include Silver Mining and Society and Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth–Century Potosí: the Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga (1988).