Hacienda San Buena Ventura
Author : Ascencion Garcia Vera
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Duval County (Tex.)
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Author : Ascencion Garcia Vera
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Duval County (Tex.)
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Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Geography
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Author : Leslie S. Offutt
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0816541590
At the end of the eighteenth century, the community of Saltillo in northeastern Mexico was a thriving hub of commerce. Over the previous hundred years its population had doubled to 11,000, and the town was no longer limited to a peripheral role in the country's economy. Leslie Offutt examines the social and economic history of this major late-colonial trading center to cast new light on our understanding of Mexico's regional history. Drawing on a vast amount of original research, Offutt contends that northern Mexico in general has too often been misportrayed as a backwater frontier region, and she shows how Saltillo assumed a significance that set it apart from other towns in the northern reaches of New Spain. Saltillo was home to a richly textured society that stands in sharp contrast to images portrayed in earlier scholarship, and Offutt examines two of its most important socioeconomic groups—merchants and landowners—to reveal the complexity and vitality of the region's agriculture, ranching, and trade. By delineating the business transactions, social links, and political interaction between these groups, she shows how leading merchants came to dominate the larger society and helped establish the centrality of the town. She also examines the local political sphere and the social basis of officeholding—in which merchants generally held higher-status posts—and shows that, unlike other areas of late colonial Mexico, Saltillo witnessed little conflict between creoles and peninsulars. The growing significance of this town and region exemplifies the increasing complexity of Mexico's social, economic, and political landscape in the late colonial era, and it anticipates the phenomenon of regionalism that has characterized the nation since Independence. Offutt's study reassesses traditional assumptions regarding the social and economic marginality of this trading center, and it offers scholars of Mexican and borderlands studies alike a new way of looking at this important region.
Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Ecuador
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Guatemala
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Author : Timothy J. Henderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822322160
The story of a female landowner during the Mexican Revolution and her relations with local peasants.
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Ecuador
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Author : Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Mexico
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Publisher : Editorial Ink
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
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Author : Marc Edelman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804720441
This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America.