John Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History in the University of London. He is the author of numerous works on Spain and Latin America, including The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change 1598-1700, Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829-1852, Caudillos in Spanish America 1800-1850.

'...one of the best Latin American history primers...a most enjoyable experience for the dedicated Latin Americanist and a fine piece of scholarship.' - History: Reviews of New Books '...a useful volume for anyone looking for syntheses of large issues of colonial Latin America and its trials...' - Jeremy Adelman, The Historian

• Acknowledgements Preface Passage to America Arms and Men in the Spanish Conquest of America The Colonial State in Spanish America Spanish America's Poor Whites: Canarian Immigrants in Venezuela, 1700-1830 The Colonial Roots of Latin American Independence Revolution as a Sin: The Church and Spanish American Independence Simon Bolivar and the Age of Revolution Bolivar and the Caudillos The Quest for the Millennium in Latin America: Popular Religion and Beyond Index

John Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History in the University of London. He is the author of numerous works on Spain and Latin America, including The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change 1598-1700, Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829-1852, Caudillos in Spanish America 1800-1850.

'...one of the best Latin American history primers...a most enjoyable experience for the dedicated Latin Americanist and a fine piece of scholarship.' - History: Reviews of New Books '...a useful volume for anyone looking for syntheses of large issues of colonial Latin America and its trials...' - Jeremy Adelman, The Historian

• Acknowledgements Preface Passage to America Arms and Men in the Spanish Conquest of America The Colonial State in Spanish America Spanish America's Poor Whites: Canarian Immigrants in Venezuela, 1700-1830 The Colonial Roots of Latin American Independence Revolution as a Sin: The Church and Spanish American Independence Simon Bolivar and the Age of Revolution Bolivar and the Caudillos The Quest for the Millennium in Latin America: Popular Religion and Beyond Index