An outpost of colonialism the Hispanic community of Mérida, Yucatán, 1690-1730 / Robert W. Patch.
| Author/creator | Patch, Robert |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xii, 266 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Hispanic community of Mérida, Yucatán, 1690-1730 |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Physical medium | maps |
| Contents | A New Year's Eve to remember : a prologue and introduction -- The city : the founding and establishment of Mérida -- Death : dying, love, and Catholic culture -- Life : status, relationships, and children -- Migration : people in motion -- Immigrants and society : social lives and behavior -- Social status : class and political power -- Class and wealth : ranchers and the urban market -- Rival factions : political conflict in Mérida -- Conclusion : America, Yucatán, Mérida. |
| Abstract | "An Outpost of Colonialism focuses on the Hispanic community in Mérida, Yucatán during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the later-middle era of Spanish colonial domination of a heavily Maya region. Unlike other regions of Mexico with rich resources of silver (or gold in South America, or sugar in the Caribbean), the main resource in the Yucatán was Indigenous labor and land, which allowed wealth and power to accrue to the region's Spanish-descended elites. By focusing on a specific place and time, this book illuminates the process of class formation and social reproduction among this group, and traces the means by which patterns of descent, marriage, and inheritance allowed for the continued consolidation of power, as well as social mobility. Using the categories of status, political power, and wealth, and charting demographic change over time, historian Robert W. Patch demonstrates that the upper class was not an endogamous class descended from the conquistadors, but that newcomers moved in and moved up, and that society included an ethnically European middle class that shared in economic opportunities and in the exercise of political power, as well as a large class of poor Hispanic people. Using the case study of a region in which economic production relied nearly exclusively on Indigenous labor, Patch provides a framework for understanding of the nature of social networks, families, social classes, and Hispanic society in Latin America as a whole"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024028002 |
| ISBN | 9781503641907 cloth |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |