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Spanish Central America : a socioeconomic history, 1520-1720 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacLeod, Murdo J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press : Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2008.
Edición:First University of Texas Press edition.
Colección:LLILAS special publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A new introduction : More than three decades of writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 / Murdo J. MacLeod
  • 1. The Central American background and conquest
  • 2. Slaves and silver : the first experts
  • 3. Ephemeral hopes
  • 4. Soconusco, a hint of things to come
  • 5. The cacao boom
  • 6. From conquest to the emergence of order and pattern
  • 7. The two republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the age of Encomienda
  • 8. Attempts to revive declining industries
  • 9. The search for new industries and trades
  • 10. Indigo, 1580-1720 : possibilites and frustrations
  • 11. The effects of the crisis on local populations and economy
  • 12. The aftermath of a boom : seventeenth-century cacao
  • 13. Honduran mining : the emergence of a local industry and culture
  • 14. External trades in hte depth of the depression
  • 15. The currency crisis
  • 16. Men and land in mid-century : contraction and isolation
  • 17. The two republics in the years of depression
  • 18. Costa Rican cacao
  • 19. Signs of strain and change (c. 1685-1720)
  • 20. The growth of a new solution : the rise of smuggling.