Lesley byrd simpson foreword (1 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs & faint creasings to corners. First published 1952, Paris under the title "La Formation des Grads Domaines au Mexique: Terre ed Societe auh XVI - XVII Siecles". Examination of New Spain feudalism and the rise of the hacienda, menorial estate or the patriarchal "big house" of 17th century Mexico --- with attendant "swarms of cousins, compadres, huge families, in-laws, vaqueros, priests, retainers, serfs and hangers-on." 8 chapters in 3 parts: Part I, The Environmet: 1, Geographic & Human Background; 2. The Slow Agricultural Expansion; 3, The Preponderance of Cattle Raising. II, The First Masters of the Soil: 4, Central & Southern Mexico; 5, The North: "Men Rich & Powerful"; 6, Factors Limiting the Great Estates' Expansion. And III, The Trend Toward Stabilization: 7, The Great Church Estates; and 8, The Hacienda & Its Masters, followed by Summary and Glossary. …