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  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Bolivia is an unusually high-altitude country created by imperial conquest and native adaptions – today, it remains one of the most multi-ethnic societies in the world with one of the largest Amerindian populations in the Americas. It has seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations in any country in Latin America. This work, having also appeared in Spanish, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Population History of the United States

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    The first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. From the origin and distribution of the Native Americans to late twentieth century changes ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Slavery in Brazil

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hispanics in the United States

    A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980–2005

    by Laird W. Bergad, Herbert S. Klein ...
    In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050. Utilizing census data and other statistical source materials, this book examines the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Modern Brazil

    A Social History

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Feeding the World

    Brazil's Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Feeding the World chronicles the rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century. Tracing the history of Brazilian agricultural development, Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna focus specifically on how Brazil came to be the largest net food exporter in the world. Brazil was always an agricultural export country, but it was traditionally an ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Brazil

    An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil. Beginning with the original human settlements in pre-Colombian society, it moves on to discuss the Portuguese Empire and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Brazilian Crops in the Global Market

    The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer.The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Royal Treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America: Vol. 3

    Chile and Rio de la Plata

    Edited by John J. Tepaske, Herbert S. Klein ...
    The Royal Treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America provides records of Spanish colonial treasuries of various New World administrative centers. In this volume, the fourth in the series, the authors have compiled quantitative date on the fiscal structure of the presidency of Quito that will be an invaluable source for reconstructing the economic, political, and social history of eighteenth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD