The Cambridge History of Latin America

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Leslie Bethell
Cambridge University Press, 1984 - History - 696 pages
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
The Catholic Church in Latin America 18301930
527
responses
557
Religion reform and revolution
584
between tradition
594
Index
661
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