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Spanish Central America : A Socioeconomic History, 1520-1720 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies,
2008.
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| Edition: | First University of Texas Press edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.