Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America
By Unknown Author.
Description
Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America Edited by Louisa Schell Hoberman and Susan Migden Socolow The Spanish and Portuguese world in the Americas centered on cities. Exploration and conquest quickly gave way to settlements, and some 222 towns existed as early as 1580. In these urban centers, the most documented activities-and consequently the most studied by historians-were the affairs of government and commerce. But long neglected was the daily lives of those residing in cities throughout Latin America, and that social history is described and analyzed for the first time in this col...
ISBN(s)
0826308457, 9780826308450
