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A Companion to Latin American History. Edited by Thomas H. Holloway. Maiden: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. x, 530. Bibliography. Index. $200.00 cloth.
With 28 well-written and concise chapters, this volume is an accessible and welcome contribution to the general field of Latin American Studies. Under the editorial command of Thomas H. Holloway, chapters range in time from the late Pleistocene to contemporary period. Geographically, it addresses a fairly vast series of topics that concern the hemisphere as a whole while, at times, focusing on specific areas.
Three chapters by Tom D. Dillehay, John Monaghan, and Andrew R. Wyatt along with Jeffrey Quilter are all devoted strictly to pre-contact peoples and civilizations. Approximately ten chapters men consider critical colonial history topics. William D. Phillips Jr. and Carla Rann Phillips detail Portuguese and Spanish exploration while Patricia Seed discusses conquest and early colonization. Contributions by Kevin Terraciano on indigenous cultures in Spanish America and Franklin Knight on Africans and slavery in...