Mexico
Volume 2. The Colonial Era
- Author: Alan Knight, St Antony's College, Oxford
- Date Published: October 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521891967
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This 2002 book is the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Focusing on the period from 1521 to 1821, Volume 2 offers a comprehensive narrative and analysis of colonial Mexico following the Spanish conquest. In explaining colonial patterns of development, Alan Knight pays particular attention to the political economy of the colony: the formation and growth of the hacienda and its impact on the Indian peasantry; the dynamics of the colonial state and its relationship to the church; the role of trade, demography, warfare and taxation; and contrasting patterns of regional development, of class and ethnic conflict, and of popular protest in both city and countryside. The book concludes with an analysis of the accumulating tensions of the Bourbon era and of the bloody struggle for Mexican independence.
Read more- Broad in scope and sweep
- A marriage of narrative and analysis, ideal for the general reader
- Examines Mexico in broader, comparative context
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'… a history of Mexico which promises to become a major addition the the historiography of Latin America.' The English Historical Review
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- Date Published: October 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521891967
- length: 374 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.508kg
- contains: 6 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Habsburg Colony:
1. Military and material conquest
2. Spiritual conquest
3. Political conquest
4. The 'conquest' of the north
5. Hacienda and village
6. Acculturation and resistance: Central Mexico
7. Acculturation and resistance: North and South
8. The political economy of New Spain
9. The Imperial liaison
Part II. Bourbon New Spain:
10. The Bourbon economy
11. The Bourbon project
12. The Imperial liaison
13. Towards independence
14. The insurgency.
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