Part I
History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century
1. Introduction: History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century. The Bigger Picture
2. America
3. Atlantic
4. Colonial Economies
5. Colonial Rule
6. Columbian Exchange
7. Conquest and Colonization
8. Enlightenment
9. Gender
10. Independence Movements
11. Indigenous Peoples
12. Inter-ethnic Relations
13. Language
14. Memorial Culture
15. Migration
16. Nation and State Building
17. Religion and Missionizing
18. Slavery
19. Unfree Labor
Part II History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century
20. Introduction: History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century. Inter-American Thresholds and Critical Key Concepts
21. Alter-Globalization
22. Biopolitics
23. Consumerism
24. Education
25. Ethnicity
26. Family
27. Freedom
28. Gender Identities
29. Health
30. Hybridity, Mestizaje, Creolité
31. Indigeneity
32. Intersectionality
33. Latinidad
34. Memory Politics
35. Modernization
36. Multiculturalism
37. Popular
38. Postcolonialism and Decoloniality
39. Race
40. Religious Beliefs
41. Social Movements
42. Socialism
43. Subcultures
44. Transnational Migration
45. Urbanization
46. Whiteness
Index

The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach.
The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and society of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from the colonial period until the present century:
The shared histories and dynamics of Inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependences.
Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives.
Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements.
This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies. ---provided by publisher