Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1820

By Eric Van Young

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742553566
• ISBN13: 9780742553569
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"