The Hacienda in Mexico

by Daniel Nierman and Ernesto H. Vallejo

The Mexican hacienda was a work place, a residence, a place of leisure and of religion--in short, a closed and self-sufficient rural world in which landowners and workers engaged in agricultural and livestock production. Constructed and modified from the sixteenth until the beginning of the twentieth centuries, they are today some of Mexico's architectural treasures. The hacienda's layout and buildings, though derived from earlier Spanish forms, constitute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705263
• ISBN13: 9780292705265
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.3" x 11.2"