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Indians and the political economy of colonial Central America, 1670-1810
- Title
- Indians and the political economy of colonial Central America, 1670-1810 / Robert W. Patch.
- Author
- Patch, Robert.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 284 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores the colonial economy of Central America, more specifically the practices that a certain class of colonial Spanish officials, the so-called alcaldes mayores, used to manage their districts. Almost invariably, the author notes, these alcaldes made use of a wide variety of questionable practices known collectively as repartimiento. In Central America the repartimiento was a forced system of production and consumption, which integrated the indigenous populations into local and world markets against their will. By looking at specific cases, Patch goes beyond the simple "white" vs. "black" legend dichotomy so common in Spanish colonial studies, as he shows that alcaldes frequently found themselves in profoundly contradictory situations, where they had to choose one avenue of exploitation over another for reasons of pressure from both above and below"--
- Subjects
- Indians, Treatment of
- Forced labor
- Central America
- Spanish colonies
- HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century
- HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century
- Economic history
- HISTORY > Native American
- Spain > Colonies > America > Economic conditions
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies
- HISTORY > Latin America > Central America
- Indians, Treatment of > Central America > History
- Central America > Economic conditions
- America
- History
- Forced labor > Central America > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
- Contents
- People and taxes in the eighteenth century -- Government officials and the colonial state -- Indians and the colonial state: indigenous economies, government officials, and the business of government -- The business of politics and the politics of business in the Highlands: the repartimiento in Huehuetenango, 1765-1786, or, A tale of two Juans -- Government and business in the Lowlands: Nicaragua, 1730-1790 -- Imperial reform and political conflict in the eighteenth century -- Tributaries and indigenous population, 1746 -- Tributaries and estimated population, 1768 -- Tributaries and Laborios, c. 1773 -- Tributaries and estimated population, 1797 -- Tributaries and estimated population, 1803.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-821
- ISBN
- 9780806144009
- 0806144009
- 080615134X
- 9780806151342
- LCCN
- 2013018148
- OCLC
- 854906193
- Author
- Patch, Robert.
- Title
- Indians and the political economy of colonial Central America, 1670-1810 / Robert W. Patch.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-821