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A thematic approach to detailing Latin America.    For courses in Latin-American history.   Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Latin America and Its People presents a fresh interpretative survey of Latin-American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. It examines the many institutions that Latin-Americans have built and rebuilt - families, governments, churches, political parties, labor unions, schools and armies - through the everyday lives of the diverse people who forged these institutions and later altered them to meet changing circumstances. Teaching and Learning Experience   Personalize Learning- MySearchLab provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.   Improve Critical Thinking- Learning More About Latin-Americans sections at the end of each chapter offer suggestions for further reading for students interested in pursuing research projects on the lives of Latin-Americans.   Engage Students- Latin-American Lives biographical essays and discussion questions focus on individuals whose lives illustrate key points within the chapter. Highlighting the famous, as well as the less well-known, these essays help students understand the individual’s effect on greater society.   Support Instructors- MySearchLab and ClassPrep.   Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab at no extra charge, please visit www.MySearchLab.com or use the following (VP ISBN-10: 0205168647, VP ISBN-13: 9780205168644)

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Author:   Cheryl Martin ,  Mark Wasserman
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780205054701

ISBN 10:   0205054706
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 February 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE   BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1: The First People of the Americas  Chapter 2: Americans and Iberians on the Eve of Contact  Chapter 3: The European Conquest of America  Chapter 4: The Iberians’ New World  Chapter 5: The Amerindians’ Changing World  Chapter 6: A New People and Their World  Chapter 7: The Shifting Fortunes of Colonial Empires  Chapter 8: The New Nations of Latin America  Chapter 9: Regionalism, War, and Reconstruction: Politics and Economics, 821-1880  Chapter 10: Everyday Life in an Uncertain Age, 1821-1880  Chapter 11: Economic Modernization, Society, and Politics, 1880-1920  Chapter 12: Between Revolutions: The New Politics of Class and the Economies of Import Substitution Industrialization, 1920-1959  Chapter 13: People and Progress, 1910-1959 Chapter 14: Revolution, Reaction, Democracy, and the New Global Economy, 1959 to the Present  Chapter 15: Everyday Life: 1959 to the Present   COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:   List of Features List of Maps and Color Plates  Map of National Capitals  Preface About the Authors    Chapter 1: The First People of the Americas  The First Americans  Coming to America  Subsistence Strategies and the Development of Agriculture  Sedentary Communities and Ceremonial Centers  Ceremonial Centers in Mexico and Peru  The Olmec: “Mother Culture” of Mexico?  Chavín de Huantar in Peru  The Cities of Classic Mesoamerica  Monte Albán  Teotihuacan  Maya Civilization in the Classic Era  Peru After Chavín  The Moche  The Nazca  Tiwanaku  The Wari Empire  Mesoamerica and Peru, 900–1400 C.E.  The Toltecs  The Mixtecs of Oaxaca  The Post-Classic Maya  Peru after Tiwanaku and Wari  The World of Early Americans  People and Their Environment  Early Americans and Their Beliefs  Communities, States, and War  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Archaeology, Literacy, and the Study of History  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Pacal the Great, King of Palenque, 603–683 C.E.  SLICE OF LIFE The Craft Workers of Chan Chan, 1400 C.E.    Chapter 2: Americans and Iberians on the Eve of Contact  Mesoamerica in the Fifteenth Century  The Rise of the Mexica  Mexica Statecraft  Mexica Religion  Everyday Life in the Time of the Mexica  Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Spanish Invasion  The Andes in the Fifteenth Century  The Rise of the Incas  Inca Statecraft  Andean Religion in the Time of the Incas  Everyday Life in the Time of the Incas  The Aztecs and Incas Compared  The Diversity of American Peoples  The Tainos and Caribs  The Tupi of Coastal Brazil  The “Pueblo” Peoples of New Mexico  The Spanish and the Portuguese  Centuries of Conquest  Medieval Iberia and the Reconquista  Iberian Monarchies in the Fifteenth Century  The Breakdown of Iberian “Convivencia”  Iberian Society in the Fifteenth Century  Iberia and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Counting People in Past Societies  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Tanta Carhua, Bride of the Sun  SLICE OF LIFE The Marketplace at Tlatelolco    Chapter 3: The European Conquest of America  The Europeans Arrive  Columbus and the First Encounters  The Caribbean Colonies  The Portuguese in Brazil  The Spanish in Mesoamerica and the Andes  Cortés and the Aztecs  The Search for “Otro México”  The Pizarros and the Incas  Military Conquest or Strategic Alliance?  Building a Colonial Society  The Ecological Conquest  Conquistadors, Encomenderos, and Native Peoples  A Multiracial Society in Formation  The “Spiritual Conquest” of Latin America  Early Evangelization  The Impact of Evangelization  Resistance to Christianity  The Consolidation of Colonial Empires  The Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru  The Spanish Colonial Bureaucracy  Royal Government in Brazil  The Church in Spanish America and Brazil  The Spanish and Portuguese Empires  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Malinche and the Uses of Historical Memory  SLICE OF LIFE The Cuzco Cabildo Founds a Convent, 1551  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Domingos Fernandes Nobre, Mameluco of Brazil   Chapter 4: The Iberians’ New World  The Lure of Precious Metals  The Silver Boom  Labor and Technology in Silver Mining  Procuring a Labor Supply  Gold Mining in Brazil  Agriculture  Sugar Plantations  Haciendas and Ranches  Landownership  Landed Elites  Rural Society  Trade and Transportation  International Commerce  Overland Transport  Merchants  Mercantile Restrictions  Cities and Towns in the Iberians’ New World  Capital Cities  Provincial Capitals and Other Towns  Urban Amenities  Urban Working Classes  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Documenting Colonial Enterprise  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Antonio López De Quiroga, Bolivian Entrepreneur  SLICE OF LIFE The Safra in Colonial Brazil    Chapter 5: The Amerindians’ Changing World  Native Communities in Mesoamerica and the Andes  Shifting Populations in the República de Indios  Local Government in the República de Indios  Subsistence and Survival in the República de Indios  Native Communities and the Cash Economy  Families and Households in the República de Indios  Religion and Community Life in the República de Indios  Natives as Catholics  Belief and Practice in the República de Indios  Religion and Community Identity  Mission Indians  Jesuit and Franciscan Missions  Native Peoples in the Jesuit and Franciscan Missions  Mission Indians and Colonial Society  Native Peoples and the Colonial Order  Indians in the República de Españoles  “Indios Bárbaros”  Regional Revolts  Native Historical Memory and the Colonial Order  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Measuring Acculturation Using Indigenous Language Sources  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala  SLICE OF LIFE The Indians of Oaxtepec Defend Their Land and Water    Chapter 6: A New People and Their World  The Making of Multiethnic Societies  Spanish and Portuguese Immigrants  Creoles  Mestizos and Mamelucos  African Slaves  Slave Resistance  Maroon Communities  Free Blacks and Mulattos  Race and Class in Colonial Latin America  Social and Cultural Definitions of Race  Class and Ethnicity  Honor, Gender, and Patriarchy  Honor and the Patriarchal Family  Marriage and the Family  Honor and Sexuality  Honor and Homosexuality  The Limits of Patriarchy  Convents: “Islands of Women”  Convents and Colonial Society  Conformity and Defiance in Colonial Society  The Social Etiquette of Everyday Life  The Administration of Justice  The Inquisition and Deviant Behavior  Rituals of Rule  Scatological Songs and Dances of Defiance  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Parish Registers and the Study of Colonial Society  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Juana De Cobos, Baker in Chihuahua  SLICE OF LIFE Corpus Christi in Cuzco    Chapter 7: The Shifting Fortunes of Colonial Empires  The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in Eighteenth-Century Politics  Great Britain and Latin America  The Seven Years’ War  The American Revolution and Latin America  The French Revolution and Latin America  The Haitian Revolution  The Bourbon and Pombaline Reforms  Defending the Spanish Empire  Administrative Restructuring and New Viceroyalties  The Power of the Church  Economic Development  Latin American Peoples in the Age of Revolution  Social Change in the Late Colonial Period  The Changing Face of Colonial Cities  The Enlightenment in Latin America  Resistance and Rebellion in the Late Colonial Period  Developing Creole Consciousness  Resistance to the Bourbon Reforms  Conspiracies in Brazil  The Great Rebellion in Peru  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Latin America and the Atlantic World SLICE OF LIFE The Royal Tobacco Factory in Mexico City  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES  José Antonio Aponte, sculptor of Havana SLICE OF LIFE The royal tobacco factory in Mexico City    Chapter 8: The New Nations of Latin America  Spanish America and the Crisis of 1808  Spain and the Napoleonic Invasion  Representative Government in Spain and America, 1808–1814  The “American Question”  Spanish American Grievances and the Crisis of 1808  Mexico  Venezuela  Argentina  Spanish American Independence  The Final Campaigns  Regional Conflicts in the Spanish American Struggle for Independence  The Independence of Brazil  The Portuguese Monarchy in Brazil  Popular Unrest in Brazil  The Culmination of Brazilian Independence  The Meaning of Independence  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Were the wars of independence the turning point?  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Manuela Sáenz, 1797-1856, liberator of South America SLICE OF LIFE The 16th of September: independence day in Mexico    Chapter 9: Regionalism, War, and Reconstruction: Politics and Economics, 1821-1880  Dilemmas of Nationhood  Who Governs and What Form of Government?  Federalism/Centralism and Liberalism/Conservatism  The Challenge of Regionalism  Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Central America  Brazil and Chile  A Century of War  Wars of Political Consolidation  Intra-Regional Wars  Foreign Wars  Civil Wars  The Impact of War  Popular Participation  Caudillos  The Challenge of Economic Recovery  Obstacles to Development  Export Economies  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Benito Juárez: The Making of a Myth  LATIN AMERICAN Lives  Francisco Solano López SLICE OF LIFE The Parián Riot: Mexico City, 1828    Chapter 10: Everyday Life in an Uncertain Age, 1821-1880  The People  The Large Estates: Haciendas, Estancias, Plantations, Fazendas  Work Life  Domestic Life  Plantations and Slavery  Villages and Small Holders  Religion  Urban Life and Societal Transformation  The Cities  Transformations  Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Entertainment  Food  Clothing  Shelter  Entertainment  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND The Construction of Racism LATIN AMERICAN LIVES The Gaucho  SLICE OF LIFE Urban Slaves    Chapter 11: Economic Modernization, Society, and Politics, 1880-1920  Economic Modernization  Exports  The Downside of Export-Led Modernization  Railroads  Modernization and Social Change  Population Increase  New Classes, New Voices  Rural Discontent  Mass Movements of People  Politics in the Age of Modernization  A Modernized Military  The Rule of the Ranchers and Planters: Argentina and Brazil  Democracy in Chile  The Aristocratic Republic: Peru  Dictatorship: Mexico  Modernization and Resistance  Indigenous Peoples  Resistance in the Countryside  The Mexican Revolution  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Why Do People Rebel?  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Evaristo Madero SLICE OF LIFE A Chilean Mining Camp    Chapter 12: Between Revolutions: The New Politics of Class and the Economies of Import Substitution Industrialization, 1920-1959  Three Crises and the Beginnings of Intensified Government Involvement in the Economy, 1920–1945  The Aftermath of World War I  The Great Depression  World War II Peacetime Economies  Dictators and Populists  The 1920s  Depression and War  Peacetime Politics  Failure of the Left and Right  Women’s Suffrage  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Reconstructing the Semana Trágica (Tragic Week) in Argentine History  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Elvia and Felipe Carrillo Puerto  SLICE OF LIFE Colombian Coffee Farm in 1925                                                                                    Chapter 13: People and Progress, 1910-1959 Socialization in the Factory and the Mine: Proletarianization and Patriarchy  A Miner’s Day at El Teniente  Urbanization and Social Change  The Cities  Life on the Edge: The Middle Class  La Chica Moderna   Popular and High Culture  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND The Voice of the Lower Classes  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Frida Kahlo  SLICE OF LIFE Village Life in Peru    Chapter 14: Revolution, Reaction, Democracy, and the New Global Economy, 1959 to the Present  The Revolutions: Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Colombia   Cuba  Nicaragua  El Salvador  Guatemala  Peru  Colombia  The Tyrannies: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile  Brazil  Argentina  Chile   The Exception: Mexico  Resurgent Democracy and the “Pink Tide”  The Struggle for Control of Everyday Life  Indigenous Political Movements The New Global Economy  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Theories of Economic Development and History  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES  An Argentine Military Officer  SLICE OF LIFE On the Streets of Neuvo Laredo    Chapter 15: Everyday Life: 1959 to the Present The Reign of Terror  The Quality of Life  What Does It Mean to Be Poor?  Informal Economy  Narcotics Trade The Great Migrations  The Cities  To Be Poor in the Cities  An Urban Migrant’s Story  The Environment  Natural Disasters The Globalization of Culture  Art  Conclusion  LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS  HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND From the Countryside to the City  LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Women Rebels  SLICE OF LIFE The Barrio/Favela    Glossary Credits Index Index

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This in an extremely thorough and well organized text ! It also integrates the latest scholarship in the field. I like the fact that it focuses on the lives of ordinary people in Latin America and that it is attuned to issues of race, class, gender and human diversity while at the same time bringing together the peoples' different stories under a common history. -Christina Bueno, NortheasternIllinoisUniversity

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Cheryl E. Martin Cheryl E. Martin has taught Latin-American history at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1978. A native of Buffalo, New York, she received her bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Tulane University. She studied at the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador, on a Fulbright Fellowship and was a visiting instructor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico. Her publications include Rural Society in Colonial Morelos (1985) and Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century (1996). She also co-edited, with William Beezley and William E. French, Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994). Martin has served on the Council of the American Historical Association and on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, the Latin American Research Review and H. Borderlands. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Awards for Distinguished Achievement in both teaching and research at the University of Texas at El Paso. She enjoys reading and travel and is the proud grandmother of Mackenzie and Zachary.   Mark Wasserman Mark Wasserman is a professor of history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he has taught since 1978. Brought up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, he earned his B.A. at Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three books on Mexico: Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854–1911(1984), Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940 (1993) and Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War (2000). He also coauthored the early editions of the best-selling History of Latin America (1980–88) with Benjamin Keen. Wasserman has twice won the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for his books and has received research fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He has been vice-chair for undergraduate education of the Rutgers department of history and chair of the department’s Teaching Effectiveness Committee.Wasserman was an elected member of the Highland Park, New Jersey Board of Education for nearly a decade and served as its president for two years. He is an avid fan of Duke basketball and enjoys hiking and travel.

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