Product Description: Within these pages students will meet Bartolome de Las Casas, the stout defender of the Indians in sixteenth-century Spanish America, and Antonio Vieira, his seventeenth-century counterpart in Brazil. They will critically examine Columbus's role in the Iberian conquest of America, and encounter Isabel Moctezuma, a "pioneer of mestizaje"; Juan Garrido, a black conquistador; Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru; Johan Maurits, the humanist Dutch governor of Recife; Sor Juana de la Cruz, "supreme poet" of the seventeenth-century Spanish world; Tupac Amaru, the leader of the last Inca rebellion in Peru; and the German savant and scientist Alexander von Humboldt...read more

Product Description: People and Issues in Latin American History presents a range of sources on and interpretations of important topics in the history of Latin America that enable students to debate the historical significance of individuals and issues...read more

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Product Description: Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar. For the second edition the editor has expanded the section on Bolivar; revised and updated the section on economic affairs, and added new documents throughout the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A study of the colonial experience in Latin American history. Sections of the book cover: the transit of civilization; was Inca rule tyrannical?; relations between Indians and Spaniards; population questions; African slavery in Spanish America; the development of society; and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Hanke, Lewis