This pioneering book written by our colleague Gisela von Wobeser studies the transformation of the Mexican landscape with the introduction of European agriculture. To do this, she explains the control of two fundamental components: land and water. As usual, von Wobeser works with a large and well-chosen selection of archival...
The Novohispana Society made extensive use of credit. The ladies of the high society paid for the manufacture of their dresses in installments, the miners obtained advances from the merchants to exploit the mines, the stores of the towns supplied goods on credit, the workers of the haciendas and obrajes...
During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...