Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century

Martin, Cheryl English

ISBN 10: 0804725470 / ISBN 13: 9780804725477

Published by Stanford, California, U.S.A., 1996, First Edition, First Printing, Stanford University Press, 1996

About this Item

Stanford, CA, USA., 1996, First Edition, First Printing, Stanford University Press; Very Good Hardcover; in Fine attractive, laminated pictorial Dust Jacket with limited creasing; 8vo; slightly over 8 3/4" tall; orange cloth with bright, distinct gilt lettering on spine; some extremely small page stains, 2 words, both readable, affected; 264 pages including appendix of seven tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, and an index; nice tight copy; a scholarly work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: Stanford, California, U.S.A., 1996, First Edition, First Printing, Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804725470
• ISBN 13: 9780804725477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

This book is a richly detailed examination of the social history of the city of Chihuahua, a major silver mining centre in colonial Mexico. The author shows how abstract relationships of class, political subordination, ethnicity, and gender took concrete form in the daily life of the diverse people of Chihuahua. The author examines both the motivations of those who wielded power as local officials, employers, and heads of households and how their subordinates responded to them. She argues that a complex process of give-and-take developed that shaped local society and politics, a process in which working-class people challenged existing power relations both directly and indirectly. The social history of colonial Mexico was everywhere marked by the constant renegotiation of social boundaries, but especially so in Chihuahua, where everyone at first was a newcomer, and 'Mexican' and 'Spaniard' confronted together the task of creating a new community.

About the Author

Cheryl English Martin is Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.