Mexico
the colonial era
- ISBN: 9780521891967
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2002
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. None
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 353
- Idiomas: Inglés
This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, focuses on the period 1521 to 1821, and offers a comprehensive narrative and analysis of colonial Mexico following the Spanish conquest. Concludes with an analysis of the accumulating tensions of the Bourbon era and of the bloody struggle for Mexican independence.
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.
