{"id":2872,"date":"2013-07-23T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=2872"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:11:17","slug":"further-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-2-the-colonial-foundations\/further-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 2: Colonial Foundations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For a superb synthesis of the drama that was the Spanish conquest, see Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cort\u00e9s, and the Fall of Old Mexico (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993). Two pioneering studies of the impact of the conquest on the environment are Warren Dean, With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) and Elinor G. K. Melville, A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999).<\/p>\n

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Missionary activity in New Spain is the focus of Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucat\u00e1n, 1517\u20131570<\/em> (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). An analysis of the impact of epidemic disease on the indigenous population can be found in Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492\u20131650<\/em> (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). In Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages<\/em> (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1979), William B. Taylor examines the survival of distinctive indigenous cultural traditions after the conquest.<\/p>\n

Outstanding treatments of the colonial Iberian world include Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America<\/em>, 8th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) and James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil<\/em> (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983). The resilience of colonial influences is analyzed in Jeremy Adelman, ed., Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 1999). For colonial Brazil, see a classic collection of essays edited by Leslie Bethell, Colonial Brazil<\/em> (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Two excellent monographs outline the complexities of colonial life in Brazil beyond the coastal areas: Alida Metcalf, Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parna\u00edba<\/em>, 1580\u20131822 (Austin: University of Texas, 2005) and Hal Langfur, The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750\u20131830<\/em> (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006).\u00a0An exceptional economic and social history of the sugar industry is Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society, 1550\u20131835<\/em> (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).<\/p>\n

Race relations receive penetrating monographic treatment in Douglas Cope, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660\u20131720<\/em> (Madison: University\u00a0of Wisconsin Press, 1994). The development of creole identities in Spanish Latin America is described in copious detail in D. A. Brading, The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492\u20131867<\/em> (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1991). A solid, wide-ranging survey about women can be found in Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America<\/em> (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). See also\u00a0Sonya\u00a0Lipsett-Rivera,\u00a0Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856\u00a0<\/em>(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

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The origins and travail of independence in Spanish America are described in David Bushnell and Neill Macaulay, The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century,<\/em> 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) and in John Charles Chasteen, Americanos: Latin America\u2019s Struggle for Independence<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). The Andean insurrections and the transition to nationhood are presented in Charles F. Walker, Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780\u20131840<\/em> (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999). To understand demands for greater autonomy in late eighteenth- century Brazil, see Kenneth Maxwell, Conflicts & Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750\u20131808<\/em> (New York, Routledge, 2004). How the Portuguese monarchy\u2019s move to Brazil in 1808 affected its most important colony is artfully presented in Kirsten Schultz, Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808\u20131821<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 2001). An extremely useful anthology of primary sources on Brazilian slavery is Robert E. Conrad, Children of God\u2019s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil<\/em> (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994). An outstanding source of documents on Brazilian history can be found in James N. Green, Victoria Langland, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz,\u00a0The Brazil Reader: History, Politics, and Culture,\u00a0<\/em>2nd ed. (Durham: Duke, 2014).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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