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Ethelia Ruiz Medrano - Reshaping New Spain - 9781607321866 - V9781607321866
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Reshaping New Spain

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Description for Reshaping New Spain Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9781607321866
SKU
V9781607321866
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99-15

About Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano is a researcher at the Direccion de Estudios Historicos, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico and a visiting professor at The Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of 3 books with the University Press of Colorado, and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

Reviews for Reshaping New Spain
"... careful and abundantly documented, and tends above all to demonstrate the willingness of the Crown to allow substantial adjustments to policy by colonial officialdom, provided its essential jurisdiction was maintained.... Ruiz Medrano and the University Press of Colorado are to be congratulated for making her work accessible to an English-speaking readership....I will be asking my university library to order ... Read more

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