Contiene: Iberia and America before the conquest - The age of conquest - The conquest of México - The conquest of Peru - The ebbtide of conquest - Counundrums and the Columbian exchange - Ruling New World empires - Imperial Organization and administration - The Colonial Church - Populations and labor - Changes in the colonial population - Indian labor - Stavery and Slave Trade - Production, exchange, an defense - The mining and Sugar Industries - International trade and taxation - The Colonial Economy - Linving in an empire - Securing an income - Urban and rural enviromments - Colonial society, race, culture and class - The family - Daily life i the colonies - The cultural Milieu - Imperial expansion - The spanich colonies 1680s to 1762 - Brazil in the age of expansion - New Spain, Peru and the reforms of Charles III - The emergence of the Periphery in Spanish America - Crisis and collapse - An era of war and crisis for Spain and Portugal - Independence i South America.

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