Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century

by Richard Martin

Book Overview

This book is a richly detailed examination of social interaction in the city of Chihuahua, a major silver mining center of colonial Mexico. Founded at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the city attracted people from all over New Spain, all summoned "by the voices of the mines of Chihuahua." The author shows how abstract relationships of class, political subordination, ethnicity, and gender took concrete form in the daily life of the diverse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741689
• ISBN13: 9780804741682
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"