The Middle Period in Latin America : Values and Attitudes in the 17th-19th Centuries

Bypassing political independence as a line of demarcation, the authors explore change in Latin America through the use of concepts associated with mentalities and attitudes toward such quotidian realities as poverty, love, homestead, death, religion, and political obligation. Contents List of Tables and Figures The Contributors Preface 1 The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values in Search of Explanations 2 From Mentalité to Mentality: The Implications of a Novelty 3 The Triumph of Colonial Christianity in the Central Andes: Guilt, Good Conscience, and Indian Piety 4 Death in Western Colonial Mexico: Its Place in Village and Peasant Life 5 The Raw and the Cooked: Elite and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821 6 Between the Kingdom and the Wilderness: The Mentalité of Settlers in Colonial São Paulo 7 Trouble Between Men and Women: Machismo on Nineteenth-Century Estancias 8 A Challenge to the Patriarchs: Love Among the Youth in Nineteenth-Century Argentina 9 The Liberal Concept of Charity: Beneficencia Applied to Puerto Rico, 1821-1868 Index About The Book