Book description
The updated and enhanced third edition of
A History of Latin America to 1825
presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history
from the region's first human presence until the majority of Iberian
colonies in America emerged as sovereign states c. 1825.
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This edition features new content on the history of women,
gender, Africans in the Iberian colonies, and pre-Columbian peoples
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Includes more illustrations to aid learning: over 50 figures
and photographs, several accompanied by short essays
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Concentrates on the colonial period and earlier, expanding
coverage of the period and incorporating more social and cultural
history with the political narrative
Peter Bakewell
is Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History at Southern Methodist
University and has taught in the US since 1975. 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 in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546-1700
(1971) and
Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century
Potosí: The Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga
(1988).
Jacqueline Holler
is Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the
University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, Canada. She is
the author of
Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601
(2003), and of articles on colonial Mexico.
