Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-453) and index.
Contents
I. The context -- Iberian ways -- Indigenous ways -- II. Origins and early maturity -- From islands to mainland: The Caribbean phase and subsequent conquests -- Conquest society: Central areas -- Maturity in the Spanish Indies: Central areas -- Brazilian beginnings -- Brazil in the sugar age -- The fringes -- III. Reorientations -- Late colonial times in the Spanish Indies -- Brazil in the age of gold and absolutism -- The coming of independence.
