Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia

by Brooke Larson

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies

This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics. Combining economic, social, and ethnohistory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822320886
• ISBN13: 9780822320883
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"