Part 1. History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century
Introduction: History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century. The bigger picture / Josef Raab, Stefan Rinke and Alice Nash
America / Stefan Rinke
Atlantic / Ernesto Mercado Montero
Colonial economies / Juan Marchena Fernandez
Colonial rule / Eduardo Cavieres
Columbian exchange / Charles C. Mann
Conquest and colonization / Christoph Strobel
Enlightenment / Thomas O. Beebee
Gender / Maria Amelia Viteri and Cristina Yepez Arroyo
Independence movements / Roberto Brena
Indigenous peoples / Alice Nash
Inter-ethnic relations / Izaskun Alvarez Cuartero
Language / Lilia Rebeca Rodriguez Torres and Maria del Carmen de la Peza
Memorial culture / Scott Manning Stevens
Migration / Silke Hensel
Nation and state building / Stefan Rinke and Mirko Petersen
Religion and missionizing / Claude Gelinas
Slavery / Christine Hatzky
Unfree labor / Christine Hatzky


Part 2. History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century
Introduction: History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century. Inter-American thresholds and critical key concepts / Olaf Kaltmeier, Michael Stewart Foley, and Mario Rufer
Alter-globalization / Guiomar Rovira
Biopolitics / Rodrigo Parrini and Nattie Goluvob
Consumerism / Gustavo Blazquez
Education / Stefan Peters and Adriana Serrudo
Ethnicity / Christian Buschges
Family / Cornelia Giebeler
Freedom / Donovan Hernandez
Gender identities / Karina Bidaseca and Julia Roth
Health / Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde
Hybridity, mestizaje, creolite / Afef Benessaieh
Indigeneity / Olaf Kaltmeier
Intersectionality / Julia Roth
Latinidad / Luz Angelica Kirschner
Memory politics / Ludmila Catela Da Silva and Michael Stewart Foley
Modernization / Frederik Schulze
Multiculturalism / Eduardo Restrepo
Popular / Pablo Alabarces
Postcolonialism and decoloniality / Mario Rufer
Race / Peter Wade
Religious beliefs / Heinrich Wilhelm Schafer
Social movements / Leon Enrique Avila Romero
Socialism / Marc Becker
Subcultures / Michael Stewart Foley and Maria del Carmen de la Peza
Transnational migration / Gilberto Rescher
Urbanization / Lawrence A. Herzog
Whiteness / Maria Teresa Garzon Martinez.