Spanish Central America : a socioeconomic history, 1520-1720 / by Murdo J. MacLeod, with a new introduction.

Author
MacLeod, Murdo J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st University of Texas Press ed.
Published/​Created
Austin : University of Texas Press : Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2008.
Description
lx, 554 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    LLILAS special publications. [More in this series]
    Notes
    Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1973. With new introd. and index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-511) and index.
    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
    ISBN
    • 9780292717893 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
    • 029271789X ((hc ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780292717619 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 029271761X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2007028941
    OCLC
    156785009
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