Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1820 Book

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Conventions and Abbreviations     xv
Foreword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition     xvii
Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition     xxi
Introduction     1
The Human and Natural Environment
The Guadalajara Region in Time and Space     11
Demographic Change-Rural and Urban     28
Guadalajara as a Market: Urban Demand and Public Policy
Meat     43
Wheat     59
Maize     75
The Flowering of the Hacienda System
The Late Colonial Hacienda-An Introduction     107
Hacienda Ownership-Stability and Instability     114
Hacienda Ownership-Sources of Capital     139
Hacienda Ownership-Patterns of Value and Investment     176
Hacienda Production-The Changing Equilibrium     192
Hacienda Labor     236
"Desde Tiempo Inmemorial": Late Colonial Conflicts over Land
Population Pressure in the Countryside     273
Formation and Stability of the Hacienda     294
The Clash     315
Conclusion     343
Glossary of Spanish Terms     359
Bibliography     363
Index     391
About the Author     401