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The Cambridge History of Latin America #1
História da América Latina, Volume 1: América Latina Colonial
A série História da América Latina percorre os cinco séculos de história política, econômica, social e cultural do continente, contando com a colaboração de especialistas de diversas nacionalidades, num trabalho cuja amplitude não tem precedente no mercado editorial brasileiro em sua área. Este primeiro volume dedicado ao período colonial se inicia com um exame das civilizações e povos americanos nativos, às vésperas da invasão europeia, seguindo com a conquista e o início da colonização pelos europeus, e as estruturas políticas e econômicas dos impérios espanhol e português no decurso de três séculos. Dois capítulos sobre a Igreja católica na América Latina colonial completam o volume, que além do organizador, conta com colaboradores como John Hemming, Nathan Wachtel, Miguel León Portilla e Frédéric Mauro, entre outros.
680 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Leslie Bethell
83 books15 followersLeslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford; Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro; and Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
He is a former Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1987-92), and founding Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (1997-2007).
He has been Visiting Professor at a number of Brazilian and US universities and research institutions, including the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (1979), the University of California, San Diego (1986), the University of Chicago (1992-3), and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C: Fellow (1987), Guest Scholar (1996-7), Public Policy Scholar (2008-9, 2010 and 2011).
Professor Bethell's research has been principally in the field of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American – and especially Brazilian – political, social and cultural history. His publications include The abolition of the Brazilian slave trade (Cambridge, 1970; Port. trans. 1976; 2nd Port. trans., 2002), (editor, with Ian Roxborough) Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War (Cambridge, 1992; Port. trans. 1996), The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) (London, 1996), (editor) Brasil: fardo do passado, promessa do futuro. Dez ensaios sobre politica e sociedade brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 2002), Brazil by British and Irish authors (Oxford, 2003), (editor, with José Murilo de Carvalho) Joaquim Nabuco e os abolicionistas britânicos (Rio de Janeiro, 2008; Eng. trans., 2009), and Charles Landseer- Desenhos e Aquarelas de Portugal e do Brasil, 1825-1826 (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2010).
He is Editor of the Cambridge History of Latin America (12 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1984-2008), which is also being published in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese, and the author or co-author of chapters on the Independence of Brazil and Brazil 1822-1850 in CHLA vol. III Latin America, from Independence to c. 1870 and four chapters on the politics of Brazil 1930-2002 in CHLA vol. IX Brazil since 1930 (2008).
Professor Bethell serves on the International Advisory Councils of a number of Brazilian institutions and on the Editorial Boards of several Brazilian journals.
Professor Bethell has been awarded the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul by the Brazilian government (Comendador in 1994, Grande Oficial in 1998). In 2004 he was elected a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências. In 2010 he was elected a sócio correspondente (one of twenty foreign associate members) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. He also in 2010 received the Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico (Comendador).
He currently lives in Rio de Janeiro.He is the sole editor of the eleven volume Cambridge History of Latin America, a massive attempt at compiling and integrating the existing scholarship of Latin American studies.[5] The entire product took more than fifteen years to be completed[6] The work, was praised widely, with the historian Paul Gootenberg noting that the series had "earned rave scholarly reviews throughout the 1990s".[7] The Library Journal referred to the first two volumes of the series as "the most detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative work on the subject available"[8], while the political scientist Paul W. Drake called various volumes in the set "landmark[s] in their field."[9] Reviews were not completely positive, however, with some of the volumes being described as "unwieldy"[10] and skewed too much to the present age.[11] Alternately, the series has also been criticized for its lack of coverage of issues whose impacts have extended into contemporary times and of the trends that had
He is a former Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1987-92), and founding Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (1997-2007).
He has been Visiting Professor at a number of Brazilian and US universities and research institutions, including the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (1979), the University of California, San Diego (1986), the University of Chicago (1992-3), and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C: Fellow (1987), Guest Scholar (1996-7), Public Policy Scholar (2008-9, 2010 and 2011).
Professor Bethell's research has been principally in the field of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American – and especially Brazilian – political, social and cultural history. His publications include The abolition of the Brazilian slave trade (Cambridge, 1970; Port. trans. 1976; 2nd Port. trans., 2002), (editor, with Ian Roxborough) Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War (Cambridge, 1992; Port. trans. 1996), The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) (London, 1996), (editor) Brasil: fardo do passado, promessa do futuro. Dez ensaios sobre politica e sociedade brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 2002), Brazil by British and Irish authors (Oxford, 2003), (editor, with José Murilo de Carvalho) Joaquim Nabuco e os abolicionistas britânicos (Rio de Janeiro, 2008; Eng. trans., 2009), and Charles Landseer- Desenhos e Aquarelas de Portugal e do Brasil, 1825-1826 (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2010).
He is Editor of the Cambridge History of Latin America (12 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1984-2008), which is also being published in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese, and the author or co-author of chapters on the Independence of Brazil and Brazil 1822-1850 in CHLA vol. III Latin America, from Independence to c. 1870 and four chapters on the politics of Brazil 1930-2002 in CHLA vol. IX Brazil since 1930 (2008).
Professor Bethell serves on the International Advisory Councils of a number of Brazilian institutions and on the Editorial Boards of several Brazilian journals.
Professor Bethell has been awarded the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul by the Brazilian government (Comendador in 1994, Grande Oficial in 1998). In 2004 he was elected a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências. In 2010 he was elected a sócio correspondente (one of twenty foreign associate members) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. He also in 2010 received the Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico (Comendador).
He currently lives in Rio de Janeiro.He is the sole editor of the eleven volume Cambridge History of Latin America, a massive attempt at compiling and integrating the existing scholarship of Latin American studies.[5] The entire product took more than fifteen years to be completed[6] The work, was praised widely, with the historian Paul Gootenberg noting that the series had "earned rave scholarly reviews throughout the 1990s".[7] The Library Journal referred to the first two volumes of the series as "the most detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative work on the subject available"[8], while the political scientist Paul W. Drake called various volumes in the set "landmark[s] in their field."[9] Reviews were not completely positive, however, with some of the volumes being described as "unwieldy"[10] and skewed too much to the present age.[11] Alternately, the series has also been criticized for its lack of coverage of issues whose impacts have extended into contemporary times and of the trends that had
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April 9, 2022
Este es un trabajo extraordinario, de gran erudición, y profundidad analítica. Hay dos aspectos lamentables: el primero, es que fue escrito en los 80, así que está necesariamente desactualizado en varios aspectos, aun cuando la mayor parte de su contenido sigue siendo de gran relevancia; el segundo, es que frecuentemente se adhiere a ideas que justifican sobre la base del derecho papal e imperial (de España y Portugal), la actividad invasora. Dicho derecho no tiene relevancia alguna para los pueblos nativos de América Latina, y no fue más que una muleta psicológica y moral para justificar, ante ellos mismos, la invasión, colonización, y genocidio de los pueblos originarios. Asimismo, una serie de prejuicios en contra de los pueblos originarios persiste, lo que se revela en el lenguaje utilizado para describir varios pasajes, aun cuando los autores muestran simpatía con la causa y bienestar nativo en general.
March 2, 2014
Une bonne synthèse qui a le mérite d'être concise. La première partie sur l'époque précolombine est la meilleure à mon avis. La seconde partie sur la conquête et la colonisation est déjà plus contestable lorsqu'elle aborde la question autochtone et la légende noire, avec selon moi une prise de position parce qu'elle exclut d'autres sujets importants à aborder sur les premiers temps de l'Amérique coloniale (reste à voir quels sont les sujets abordés sur la même période dans les autres tomes, ce qui dans ce cas là oblige à se procurer toute la collection). Mais je suppose que cela relève d'un choix que de se centrer plus particulièrement sur les indigènes. Les interprétations restent cependant valables et jusqu'aujourd'hui toutes admises et reconnues par la communauté scientifique.
January 15, 2019
Documento importante para conocer a fondo los detalles de la conquista española en las tierras aborígenes de América, donde describe la forma en que fueron exterminados su población, esclavitud y posesión de sus bienes y tierras. También anota sobre la influencia de la Iglesia Católica en la conversión e imposición del cristianismo sobre los ideales y creencias de los aborígenes americanos. El libro es un material bastante robusto y recomendado para personas o estudiantes con algún conocimiento profundo de la historia de la colonización americana. Son varios volúmenes según la época de la historia americana. Esperaré leer otros para profundizar, ya que "el que no conoce su historia, está condenado a repetirla".
January 25, 2024
Es muy completo e interesante, sin embargo, hay ciertas cosas que evidencian que fue escrito en los 80s. Pero, como mirada general, cumple.
September 21, 2014
I remember when I first picked up the Cambridge History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson several years back, I could barely get through the book. It was so dense and the subject material was simply so foreign to me. Fast forward to the present and with a much enhanced knowledge of Latin America, I found the first volume of the Cambridge series on Latin American history, which examines pre-Columbian America and the colonial period to be extremely informative. It filled it many gaps in my knowledge and has greatly enhanced my understanding of the narrative of close to 300 years of pre-independence history from the tribes of the Amazon to the role and structure of the Church in Latin America. A must read for any nerd on the region.
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