The Cambridge History of Latin AmericaLeslie Bethell 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. |
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Contents
Latin America and the international economy | 1 |
Factor markets | 25 |
the evolution of capitalism in Latin | 46 |
Latin America and the international economy | 57 |
Latin America the United States and | 83 |
Europe the United States and Latin America | 98 |
The population of Latin America 18501930 | 121 |
Mortality | 140 |
oligarchy | 310 |
Industry or industrialization? | 319 |
The urban working class and early Latin | 325 |
The composition and condition of the working | 332 |
emergence of communist parties | 359 |
Conclusion | 365 |
persistence of the authoritarian tradition | 414 |
The literature music and art of Latin | 443 |
Internal migration | 146 |
of California at Davis | 153 |
after 1870 | 161 |
Plantation economies and societies in | 187 |
The growth of Latin American cities 18701930 | 233 |
Industry in Latin America before 1930 | 267 |
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