Published by the University of Minnesota Press, the United States
of America. Second printing, 1987. - 586 p.
This book is about the interaction of Spaniards and Portuguese and numerous Indian and African peoples in a "New World" over a span of two centuries. The nature of this book determined the forms of scholarly apparatus adopted. It is not a product of original research but rather a synthesis of the published work of many scholars, organized and interpreted as the author judged best.
Contents:
Part I. Old World Antecedents
The Matrix of Hispanic Societies: Reconquista and Repoblacion
Reconquest Hispania
Hispanic Expansion in the Old World
Part II. The Establishment of Hispanic Dominion in America, 1492 to About 1570
The Conditions of Conquest and Colonization: Geography and Peoples
Mundus Novus: Discovery and Conquest
Colonization: The Populators of the Indies
Instruments of Colonization: The Castilian Municipio
Colonization: Efforts to Incorporate the Indians
The Royal Senorio in the Indies
The Fruits of the Land
The Commerce of the Indies
The Conquest of Brazil
The Colonization of Brazil to About 1570
Part III. Hispanic American Empires from About 1570 to About 1700
The Imperial Context: The Hispanic World in the Age of the Habsburg Kings
Territorial Changes in the Hispanic New World: Contractions, Expansions, Adjustments
Post-Conquest Populations: Components, Numbers, Movements, Distribution
Post-Conquest Economies
American Societies and American Identities
Imperial Systems
Epilogue: European Reactions to Hispanic Expansion in America
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
This book is about the interaction of Spaniards and Portuguese and numerous Indian and African peoples in a "New World" over a span of two centuries. The nature of this book determined the forms of scholarly apparatus adopted. It is not a product of original research but rather a synthesis of the published work of many scholars, organized and interpreted as the author judged best.
Contents:
Part I. Old World Antecedents
The Matrix of Hispanic Societies: Reconquista and Repoblacion
Reconquest Hispania
Hispanic Expansion in the Old World
Part II. The Establishment of Hispanic Dominion in America, 1492 to About 1570
The Conditions of Conquest and Colonization: Geography and Peoples
Mundus Novus: Discovery and Conquest
Colonization: The Populators of the Indies
Instruments of Colonization: The Castilian Municipio
Colonization: Efforts to Incorporate the Indians
The Royal Senorio in the Indies
The Fruits of the Land
The Commerce of the Indies
The Conquest of Brazil
The Colonization of Brazil to About 1570
Part III. Hispanic American Empires from About 1570 to About 1700
The Imperial Context: The Hispanic World in the Age of the Habsburg Kings
Territorial Changes in the Hispanic New World: Contractions, Expansions, Adjustments
Post-Conquest Populations: Components, Numbers, Movements, Distribution
Post-Conquest Economies
American Societies and American Identities
Imperial Systems
Epilogue: European Reactions to Hispanic Expansion in America
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index