Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda by Francois Chevalier - 2000

University of California Press, 2000-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x1. Some edge wear. Sun fading to the spine.

University of California Press, 1972 334 pp. B&W illustrations. Text is clean tight and unmarked except for some parentheses around comments in the introduction. Cover is bumped, has owner's name in felt tip on cover. Spine is sunfaded.. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket.

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California, 1970. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs & faint creasings to corners. First published 1952, Paris under the title "La Formation des Grads Domaines au Mexique: Terre ed Societe auh XVI - XVII Siecles". Examination of New Spain feudalism and the rise of the hacienda, menorial estate or the patriarchal "big house" of 17th century Mexico --- with attendant "swarms of cousins, compadres, huge families, in-laws, vaqueros, priests, retainers, serfs and hangers-on." 8 chapters in 3 parts: Part I, The Environmet: 1, Geographic & Human Background; 2. The Slow Agricultural Expansion; 3, The Preponderance of Cattle Raising. II, The First Masters of the Soil: 4, Central & Southern Mexico; 5, The North: "Men Rich & Powerful"; 6, Factors Limiting the Great Estates' Expansion. And III, The Trend Toward Stabilization: 7, The Great Church… Read More

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University of California Press, 2000-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!