Reshaping New Spain Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550 / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ; translated by Julia Constantino and Pauline Marmasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia, author.

Contributor:

Marmasse, Pauline, translator.

Constantino, Julia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Gobierno y sociedad en Nueva España. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tejada, Lorenzo de.

Mendoza, Antonio de, approximately 1492-1552.

Politics and government.

Land tenure.

Indians of Mexico.

Commercial policy.

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

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

Mexico.

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

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

Mexico--Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in Mexico as Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study Reshaping New Spain is now available in an 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:

Tables and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The First Attempts at Royal Contral over the Territory; 2. Reshaping New Spain; 3. A Royal Official as Entrepreneur; Conclusions; Comments on the Source Material; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780870818790

0870818791

OCLC:

946310634