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The standard text on colonial Latin America, this book, now in its fourth edition, provides a concise study of the Iberian colonies in the New World. The narrative spans from pre-conquest civilizations to European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the region, and examines the subsequent loss of power over the colonies by their distant imperial governments. This fourth edition has been revised to include the latest scholarship, with particular emphasis on social and cultural history.

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• Acknowledgements
• 1 Iberia and America Before the Conquest
• Amerindian Civilization Civilizations on the Eve of European Conquest
• The Iberian World iin the Late Fifteenth Century
• Exploration and the Caribbean Experiment
• 2 The Age of Conquest
• The Conquest of Mexico
• The Conquest of Peru
• The Ebbtide of ConquestConundrums and Columbian Exchange
• 3 Ruling New World Empires
• Imperial Organization and Admininistration
• The Colonial Church
• 4 Population and Labor
• Changes in the Colonial Population
• Indian Labor
• Slavery and the Slave Trade
• 5 Production, Exchange, and Defense
• The Mining and Sugar Industries
• International Trade and Taxation
• Defense
• The Colonial Economy
• 6 Living in an Empire
• Securing an Income
• Urban and Rural Environments
• Colonial Society
• Race, Culture, and Class
• The Family
• Daily Life in the Colonies
• The Cultural Milieu
• 7 Imperial Expansion
• The Spanish Colonies, 1680s to 1762
• Brazil in the Age of Expanision
• New Spain, Peru, and the Reforms of Charles III
• 8 Crisis and Collapse
• An Era of War and Crisis for Spain and Portugal
• Independence in South America
• Independence in Mexico and Central America
• Epilogue - A Note on Periodical Literature
• Glossary
• Illustration Sources and Credits
• Monarchs of Spain and Portugal
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Burkholder and Johnson have written a fine general history of Spanish and Portuguese America extending through the independence period. The authors are recognized scholars who have used recent findings on demography, racial groups, and lifestyles. Unfortunately they lack the gift for distilling information that Charles Gibson displayed in his classic Spain in America (CH, May'67). Although their account of the Spanish colonies is better than the sociological version in James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz's Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (CH, May'84), Brazil fares worse. The study is intended as a text but undergraduate students will have difficulty in differentiating between the colonial regimes. Other minor flaws occur in the discussion of the Spanish struggle for justice, the organization of material, and the cursory sketch of the Spanish borderlands that fails to mention California. Good supplementary reading lists appear at the end of each chapter. Highly recommended for graduate students and faculty; useful for others, including public library patrons. D. M. Flusche Eastern Michigan University

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Mark A.BurkholderProfessor of HistoryUniversity of Missouri, St. Louis.