Latin America in Colonial Times

Matthew Restall; Kris Lane

ISBN 10: 0521132606 / ISBN 13: 9780521132602

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Riassunto:

Presents the story of how Latin American civilization emerged from the encounter of three great civilizations in the sixteenth century.

Informazioni sugli autori: Matthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include colonial Yucatan and Mexico, Maya history, the Spanish Conquest and Africans in Spanish America. Since 1995 he has published some forty articles and essays and a dozen books, including The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (2009); Mesoamerican Voices (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003). Professor Restall also serves as co-editor of the journal Ethnohistory.

Kris Lane is Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He has published widely on slavery, witchcraft, mining and piracy in the Andes region of South America and is the author or editor of multiple books, including Defense of the Western Conquests (2010), Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of Gunpowder Empires (2010) and Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition (2002). Professor Lane has served as Visiting Professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and currently edits the interdisciplinary journal Colonial Latin American Review.

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Titolo: Latin America in Colonial Times
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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