Mexico

by Alan Knight

• ISBN13: 9780521891967
• ISBN10: 0521891965
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Series Introduction	xi
The Habsburg Colony	1	(201)
Military and Material Conquest	1	(30)
Spiritual Conquest	31	(21)
Political Conquest	52	(10)
The `Conquest' of the North	62	(10)
Hacienda and Village	72	(30)
Acculturation and Resistance: Central Mexico	102	(25)
Acculturation and Resistance: North and South	127	(23)
The Political Economy of New Spain	150	(22)
The Imperial Liaison	172	(13)
Theoretical Reprise	185	(17)
Bourbon New Spain	202	(131)
The Bourbon Economy	206	(34)
The Bourbon Project	240	(29)
The Imperial Liaison	269	(14)
Towards Independence	283	(13)
The Insurgency	296	(37)
Select Bibliography	333	(10)
Index	343