American metropolis : the making of Mexico City / Tatiana Seijas

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seijas, Tatiana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Mexico--Mexico City--History--17th century.

Employees.

Enslaved persons--Mexico--Mexico City--History--17th century.

Enslaved persons.

Mexico City (Mexico)--Social conditions--17th century.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Social conditions.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In this deeply researched book, Tatiana Seijas reveals a rich tapestry of stories about essential workers who remade and transformed the city during this period. Her narrative style carries readers to a unique place and time with residents from around the world who sold food, facilitated transportation, provided care, and valued the city's silver. Free and enslaved people from Africa and Asia, immigrants, and Native Americans pursued opportunities in a wealthy, yet deeply unequal environment, where working people claimed parts of the city for themselves. They carved out spaces to create new businesses and protect their livelihoods, altering the cityscape itself in the process. American Metropolis brings Mexico City to life from the perspective of the working people who transformed this early modern metropolis"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Feeding the city

Transporting the city

Caring for the city

Valuing the city

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 29, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Seijas, Tatiana American metropolis

ISBN:

9781009692793

1009692798

9781009692809

1009692801

OCLC:

1564133592

Publisher Number:

CIPO000317282

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license