Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Latin America: The Early Years

Cespedes, Guillermo, Latin America: The Early Years (Studies in world civilization), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

From the Preface:
This essay is an attempt to offer a concise and balanced view of the first episode in the Europeanization of the Americas: the founding and consolidation of the earliest modern colonial system. The main protagonists of this endeavor were the Iberians, but important contributions were made by other peoples of Western Europe, West Africa, and - last but not least - the aboriginal Americans.


Sobre el autor:
Guillermo Céspedes del Castillo. (Teruel, 1 de agosto de 1920-Madrid, 15 de octubre de 2006). Historiador americanista español. Es considerada la máxima autoridad en las instituciones políticas, la sociedad y economía de la América Virreinal. Académico de la Historia desde 1990.


Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review.

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