Spanish Central America : : A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720 /

Spanish Central America : : A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720 / / Murdo J. MacLeod.

The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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MacLeod, Murdo J.,
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MacLeod, Murdo J.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:revised edition
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006
  • Preface
  • By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds
  • Part One. THE SOCIETY OF CONQUEST AND ENCOMIENDA, 1520-1576
  • 1. The Central American Background and Conquest
  • 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports
  • 3. Ephemeral Hopes
  • 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come
  • 5. The Cacao Boom
  • 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern
  • 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda
  • Part Two. YEARS OF TRIAL AND MUCH ERROR: THE ECONOMICS OF SEARCH AND DIVERSIFICATION, C. 1576-1635
  • 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries
  • 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades
  • 10. Indigo, 1580-1720: Possibilities and Frustrations
  • 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy
  • Part Three. THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DEPRESSION AND THE FIRST SIGNS OF RECOVERY, C. 1635-1720
  • 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao
  • 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture
  • 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression
  • 15. The Currency Crisis
  • 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation
  • 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression
  • 18. Costa Rican Cacao
  • 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685-1720)
  • 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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