Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630
Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630

Author: Andre Gunder Frank

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780521222099

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`The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of Spanish rule on Mexican society and agriculture, in terms of the demands of world capitalist development. Mr Frank traces the rapid transformation of the dominant institutions of Mexican labour organization which occurred after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521: from a form of slavery, which lasted until 1533, through various forms of forced labour (the encomienda and the catequil or mica), to the establishment, after 1575, of the hacienda, with large-scale latifundia lands worked by serf-like ganan labour.

Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World
Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

Author: Paul E. Lovejoy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136300597

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This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.

Forsaken Harvest
Forsaken Harvest

Author: Luis G. Cueva

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1796015946

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This historical monograph examines the decline of the hacienda estates within Jalisco, Mexico, during the early decades of the twentieth century. The book also explores the impact of the land reform program of President Lázaro Cárdenas in transforming the agrarian economic structure of the region. This study contributes to an ongoing lively debate about the hacienda system and the meaning of Cárdenas’s reforms. This is an important work because it explores the evolution of a regional socioeconomic system that promoted urban industrial growth at the expense of the rural poor. The model of regional development described is applicable to other areas of Mexico and underdeveloped Third World nations with extensive peasant populations. The research for this investigation has wider implications regarding issues of global hunger and malnutrition.

Confronting Historical Paradigms
Confronting Historical Paradigms

Author: Frederick Cooper

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780299136840

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Brings together broadly synthetic essays of interpretation that illuminate both the rethinking of history and paradigm that has taken place within the fields of African and Latin American history and the resonances between these fields. Three of the essay have previously been published in scholarly journals; three essays and a postscript were written expressly for this volume. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980
Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980

Author: Raymond D. Irwin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0313072892

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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in professional literature, and the number of OCLC member libraries holding the work. In 31 thematic sections, the book covers such topics as: exploration and colonialization, Native Americans, the American Revolutionary War, the Constitution, race and slavery, gender, religion.

Farm and Factory
Farm and Factory

Author: Nicholas P. Cushner

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1983-06-30

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1438400276

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This second volume of Nicholas P. Cushner's economic study of colonial Latin America describes and analyzes the unique relationship between the textile mill and farm in Interandine Quito. Cushner shows how human and natural resources blended to produce a vibrant institution in the rural world of colonial Quito.

Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change
Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change

Author: Helen Wheatley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-03-24

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1351960083

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This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation. These environmental transformations could be as dramatic as the last Ice Age, but scholars have only begun to take full measure of the changes. The articles presented here provide a map of some of the more promising directions of historical research. Major themes include biological exchange, agriculture, extraction of forest and animal resources, interactions between indigenous and European methods of exploitation, and European approaches to regulation and conservation. A useful corrective to the frontier image of Europeans conquering the wilderness, this volume provides a rich picture of the diversity of European interests and the sometimes unexpected consequences of their approaches to the land.

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820

Author: John K. Thornton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 0521727340

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An overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830, describing interactions between the inhabitants of Africa, Europe and North and South America.