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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America 2nd Edition
Author(s): Kenneth J. Andrien
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 2 May 2013
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 354 pages
- ISBN-10: 1442212985
- ISBN-13: 9781442212985
Book Description
Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.
Contributions by: Rolena Adorno, Kenneth J. Andrien, Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Joan Bristol, Noble David Cook, Marcela Echeverri, Lyman L. Johnson, Mary Karasch, Alida C. Metcalf, Kenneth Mills, Muriel S. Nazzari, Ana María Presta, Susan E. Ramírez, Matthew Restall, Zeb Tortorici, Camilla Townsend, Ann Twinam, and Nancy E. van Deusen.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Kenneth Andrien proves himself a skillful editor who knows what works in the classroom. This is an excellent supplementary reading.
Recommended for classroom use. This textbook gets away from the dominant presentation of topics and, instead, focuses on biographical profiles of people and their times.
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America . . . will enrich the understanding of Latin American culture of a student at just about any level.
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is full of fascinating stories. It is a celebration of historians’ ability to research the lives of the common folk whose portraits never reach the walls of museums. These vivid narratives about real people make the great themes of colonial Latin American history more immediate and accessible to students.
This is a wonderful book, rich with the personal histories of everyday colonial people masterfully set within the context of time and place. These engrossing portraits invite the reader to examine how men and women–indigenous people, Europeans and those of African descent, slave and free, merchants, officers, soldiers, writers, chieftains (kurakas) and mystics–challenged their assigned roles within the colonial social hierarchy.
This wonderful book brings to life the complex history of colonial Latin America in ways that traditional textbooks cannot. Students will better identify with everyday life in the colonies through the rich accounts of the experiences of both the ordinary and extraordinary individuals presented in this work. It will undoubtedly enhance lectures and spark lively discussions. A welcome addition!
About the Author
Kenneth J. Andrien is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair Emeritus in the History Department at Southern Methodist University, USA. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and nine books.
