Latin America : a social history of the colonial period / Jonathan C. Brown.

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Part. 1. The encounter between Native Americans and Europeans. The ancient Mesoamericans -- The ancient South Americans -- Iberian conquest and settlement -- Part. 2. Establishing the colonial social heritage. Colonial institutions -- The Iberian-American world -- Native Americans -- African Americans -- Part. 3. Economic florescence and social change in the eighteenth century. Economic and social change in Spanish North America -- The working people of Mexico -- The emergence of Spanish South America -- Rebellion in the Andes -- Brazil's age of gold -- The Haitian social revolution -- Part. 4. The age of reform and independence. The failure to avert the colonial crisis -- Civil war and independence.