A history of Latin America to 1825

Lands and climates

American peoples

Iberia and Africa

Columbus and others

Experiment in the Caribbean

Military conquest

Administration : the power of paper

Church : friars, bishops, and the state

Society : old orders changed

Economy : ships and silver

The seventeenth century : a slacker grip

Eighteenth-century Spanish America : reformed or doomed?

Colonial Brazil : slaves, sugar, and gold

Independence

Epilogue.