The Möbius Strip : A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (685 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- Part One -- 2 The Lay of the Land -- 3 The Law of the Land: Crown Policy and Iberian Custom in the Colonization of New Spain -- Part Two -- 4 Land Acquisition during the Early Colonial Period -- 5 Hacienda Formation and Market Structure: Landholding in North- and South- Central Guerrero -- 6 Place Making and Place Breaking: Migration and the Development Cycle of Community -- 7 The Politics of Economy and Space: Interjurisdictional Migration into the Iguala Valley -- 8 Spaces of Capital and Commerce: Rural Society and the Interregional Economy of Central Guerrero -- 9 The Transformation of Rural Society: Commercial Capital and the Monopolization of Resources -- Part Three -- 10 The Political and Moral Economy of Subsistence: State Control of Grain Markets -- 11 Seeds of Discord and Discontent: Grain, Regionalism, and Emerging Class Conflict -- Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion -- Reference Matter -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Möbius Strip is an extensively researched study of the complex transformation of space--from the spatial politics of the state to the spatial practices of peasants--during three centuries of colonial rule in Mexico.
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Land settlement -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State) -- History. Land tenure -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State) -- History. Migration, Internal -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State) -- History. Grain trade -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State) -- History. Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Economic conditions. Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Colonization. Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Commerce -- History.