Hacienda and market in eighteenth-century Mexico : the rural economy of the Guadalajara region, 1675-1820 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Young, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1981]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The human and natural environment. The Guadalajara region in time and space ; Demographic change - rural and urban
  • Guadalajara as a market: urban demand and public policy. Meat ; Wheat ; Maize
  • The flowering of the hacienda system. The late colonial hacienda - an introduction ; Hacienda ownership - stability and instability ; Hacienda ownership - sources of capital ; Hacienda ownership - patterns and value and investment ; Hacienda production ; the changing equilibrium ; Hacienda labor
  • "Desde tiempo inmemorial": late colonial conflicts over land. Population pressure in the countryside ; Formation and stability of the hacienda ; The clash.