Reshaping New Spain : government and private interests in the colonial bureaucracy, 1531-1550 / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ; translated by Julia Constantino and Pauline Marmasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia.

Standardized Title:

Gobierno y sociedad en Nueva España. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mendoza, Antonio de, approximately 1492-1552.

Tejada, Lorenzo de.

Indians of Mexico.

History.

Commercial policy.

Land tenure.

Mexico--Politics and government.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.

Land tenure--Mexico--History--16th century.

Mexico--Commercial policy--History--16th century.

Indians of Mexico--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

x, 320 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2006]

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

Originally published in Mexico as Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study is now available in this updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land ownership and labor laws to favor the new bureaucrats. This portrait of the emerging government in New Spain fills a critical niche in Latin American studies.

Contents:

The first attempts at royal control over the territory : policy of the Second Audiencia, 1531-1535

Reshaping New Spain : the policy of Viceroy Mendoza, 1531-1550

A royal official as entrepreneur : the case of Oidor Lorenzo de Tejada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.

ISBN:

0870818147

OCLC:

61458269