Indians, Merchants, and Markets : A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821 /

Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancías as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods marketable in the Spanish economy and to purchase expensive and undesired Spanish products. The aut...

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Autor principal: Baskes, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Social Science History
Temas:
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t List of Tables --   |t List of Illustrations --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Note on Abbreviations and Conventions --   |t 1. Introduction --   |t 2. The Repartimiento and the Production of Cochineal --   |t 3. The Repartimiento and Crown Politics --   |t 4. Coerced or Voluntary? Market Participation of Indians --   |t 5. Informal Credit Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade --   |t 6. A Risky Business: Credit and Default in the Dye Trade --   |t 7. Indians and Markets --   |t 8. Oaxaca to London: A Balance Sheet --   |t 9. Epilogue --   |t Appendixes --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancías as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods marketable in the Spanish economy and to purchase expensive and undesired Spanish products. The author challenges this conventional portrayal of Indian-Spanish economic relations by arguing that Indian market behavior was economically rational and voluntary. He further argues that the repartimiento was an institution designed to overcome market imperfections inherent in Mexico's colonial economy and to facilitate the extension of credit in a cross-cultural environment. Examining repartimiento production of cochineal, a dyestuff produced exclusively by Oaxacan Indians and representing Mexico's most valued export after silver, this study shows that Indians produced cochineal for the market voluntarily because it provided them with needed income. The primary role of the repartimiento was to provide Mexico's indigenous peasantry with credit, without which they could not have participated in the market as extensively as they did. Owing to the difficulty of collecting debts, credit provision was monopolized by agents of the Crown, the alcaldes mayores, who alone possessed the legal leverage needed to enforce the payment of debts. Though Spanish officials profited from the repartimiento, their economic gains were not so great as traditionally believed. Overall, the book demonstrates that Mexican Indians were much more actively engaged in the market than customarily imagined, and were adept at promoting their interests despite the discriminating policies of colonialism. The book rounds out its account of the repartimiento by examining the transatlantic trade in cochineal, especially in its late colonial decline. 
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