Migration in colonial Spanish America
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Migration in colonial Spanish America
（Cambridge studies in historical geography, 16）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
1st pbk. version
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America David J. Robinson
- 2. Indian migration and community formation: an analysis of congregacion in colonial Guatemala George Lovell and William R. Swezey
- 3. Migration in colonial Peru: an overview Noble David Cook
- 4. Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century Brian Evans
- 5. '... residente en esa ciudad ...': urban migrants in colonial Cuzco Ann Wightman
- 6. Frontier workers and social change: Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century Ann Zulawski
- 7. Student migration to colonial urban centers: Guadalajara and Lima Carman Castaneda
- 8. Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico Michael M. Swann
- 9. Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649-1749 Elsa Malvido
- 10. Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico John Kicza
- 11. Marriage, migration, and settling down: Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770-1788 Robert McCaa
- 12. Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico Rodney Watson
- 13. Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700-1850 Hector Perez Brignoli
- 14. Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes Edda O. Samudio A.
- 15. Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito: Crown manipulation and local co-optation Karen Powers
- Notes
- Index.
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