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  title info:
    title: Hacienda and market in eighteenth-century Mexico
    sub title: the rural economy of the Guadalajara region, 1675-1820
  name:
    name part: Van Young, Eric.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  abstract: This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed estates of late colonial Mexico, the central economic and social institution of an overwhelmingly rural society. With rich empirical detail, he meticulously describes the features of the rural economy, including patterns of land ownership, credit and investment, labor relations, the structure of production, and the relationship of a major colonial city to its surrounding area. The book's most interesting and innovative element is its emphasis on the way the system of rural economy shaped, and was shaped by, the internal logic of a great spatial system, the region of Guadalajara. Van Young argues that Guadalajara's population growth progressively integrated the large geographical region surrounding the city through the mechanisms of the urban market for grain and meat, which in turn put pressure on local land and labor resources. Eventually this drove white and Indian landowners into increasingly sharp conflict and led to the progressive proletarianization of the region's peasantry during the last decades of the Spanish colonial era. It is no accident, given this history, that the Guadalajara region was one of the major areas of armed insurrection for most of the decade during Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain. By highlighting the way haciendas worked and changed over time, this indispensable study illuminates Mexico's economic and social history, the movement for independence, and the origi…
  table of contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Conventions and Abbreviations; Foreword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition; Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition; Introduction; Part I. The Human and Natural Environment; Chapter 1. The Guadalajara Region in Time and Space; Chapter 2. Demographic Change-Rural and Urban; Part II. Guadalajara as a Market: Urban Demand and Public Policy; Chapter 3. Meat; Chapter 4. Wheat; Chapter 5. Maize; Part III. The Flowering of the Hacienda System
  table of contents: Chapter 6. The Late Colonial Hacienda-An IntroductionChapter 7. Hacienda Ownership-Stability and Instability; Chapter 8. Hacienda Ownership-Sources of Capital; Chapter 9. Hacienda Ownership-Patterns of Value and Investment; Chapter 10. Hacienda Production-The Changing Equilibrium; Chapter 11. Hacienda Labor; Part IV. ""Desde Tiempo Inmemorial"": Late Colonial Conflicts over Land; Chapter 12. Population Pressure in the Countryside; Chapter 13. Formation and Stability of the Hacienda; Chapter 14. The Clash; Conclusion; Glossary of Spanish Terms; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
  note: Eric Van Young ; foreword by John H. Coatsworth.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-389) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Mexico
    geographic: Guadalajara Region
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Produce trade
    geographic: Mexico
    geographic: Guadalajara Region
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Haciendas
    geographic: Mexico
    geographic: Guadalajara Region
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Guadalajara Region -- History -- 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Haciendas -- Mexico -- Guadalajara Region -- History -- 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Produce trade -- Mexico -- Guadalajara Region -- History -- 18th century
  classification: HD1795.G78 V36 2006eb
  classification: 630
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    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006
      edition: 2nd ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)654555254
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    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130824
    record change date: 20250816213019.2
    record identifier: in00003338860
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng