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ISBN:
9780511522239
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in historical geography 16
Content:
In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, the studies will attract the attention of all Latin American specialists. They provide conclusive evidence of the ubiquity of migration in the early modern period, challenging views of immobile peasants held in the grip of static colonialism. They show that to migrate was one of the most important means of coping with Spanish colonialism. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and interpretations that are novel and represent important contributions to colonial Latin American studies. They address the basic questions of who migrated, why did they migrate, how can one interpret migration fields, what role did economic opportunity or ecological conditions play, and not least, what was the impact of migrants on non-migrant communities in both rural and urban areas. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social/racial change
Content:
Introduction : towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America / David J. Robinson -- Indian migration and community formation : an analysis of congregacíon in colonial Guatemala / George Lovell and William R. Swezey -- Migration in colonial Peru : an overview / Noble David Cook -- Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century / Brian Evans -- " ... residente en esa ciudad ..." : urban migrants in colonial Cuzco / Ann Wightman -- Frontier workers and social change : Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century / Ann Zulawski -- Student migration to colonial urban centers : Guadalajara and Lima / Carmen Castañeda -- Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico / Michael M. Swann -- Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649-1749 / Elsa Malvido
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Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico / John Kicza -- Marriage, migration, and settling down : Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770-1788 / Robert McCaa -- Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico / Rodney Watson -- Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700-1850 / Hector Pérez Brignoli -- Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes / Edda O. Samudio A. -- Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito : crown manipulation and local co-optation / Karen Powers
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521362818
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521030281
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521362818
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511522239
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