Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures ix
4. The Contributors xi
5. Preface xiii
6. 1 The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values in Search of Explanations 1
7. 2 From Mentalité to Mentality: The Implications of a Novelty 19
8. 3 The Triumph of Colonial Christianity in the Central Andes: Guilt, Good Conscience, and Indian Piety 33
9. 4 Death in Western Colonial Mexico: Its Place in Village and Peasant Life 57
10. 5 The Raw and the Cooked: Elite and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821 75
11. 6 Between the Kingdom and the Wilderness: The Mentalité of Settlers in Colonial São Paulo 103
12. 7 Trouble Between Men and Women: Machismo on Nineteenth-Century Estancias 123
13. 8 A Challenge to the Patriarchs: Love Among the Youth in Nineteenth-Century Argentina 141
14. 9 The Liberal Concept of Charity: Beneficencia Applied to Puerto Rico, 1821-1868 167
15. Index 185
16. About The Book 193