Haciendas and ayllus : rural society in the Bolivian Andes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Herbert S. Klein.

Author
Klein, Herbert S. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1993.
Description
xvi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    The existence of a Spanish and criollo landed elite and an Indian peasant mass has been the distinguishing feature of the Amerindian societies of Latin America for most of the past half-millennium. In Peru and Bolivia (colonial Alto Peru), the dominant theme in rural life was the interaction of these two groups as manifested in the relationship between the hacienda and the self-governing Indian communities (ayllus). Making use of extensive census materials and notarial records for the first time, the author has focused on the province of La Paz, a substantial and wealthy area containing half the Indian population of Bolivia. Klein's main contribution is to reinterpretate the relationship between the market, the hacendado class and the peasantry. The importance of the work extends beyond Bolivian agrarian history, as it has implications for Latin American rural history and peasant studies in general.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. The Hacendado Class in the Late Eighteenth Century
    • 2. Commerce and Landed Wealth: The Life of Don Tadeo Diez de Medina
    • 3. The Structure of the Indian Communities in the Late Eighteenth Century
    • 4. The Mining Crisis and the Peasant Populations of Chulumani and Pacajes, 1786-1838
    • 5. Peasant Response to the Market and the Land Question in the Nineteenth Century
    • 6. The Hacendado Class in the Late Nineteenth Century.
    ISBN
    • 0804720576 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780804720571 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    92019596
    OCLC
    26055210
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