Making a New World : Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America

John Tutino

ISBN 10: 0822349892 / ISBN 13: 9780822349891

Edité par Duke University Press Aug 2011, 2011

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Neuware - Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the BajÍo, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and QuerÉtaro, northwest of Mexico City. The BajÍo became part of a new world in the 1530s, when Mesoamerican OtomÍs and Franciscan friars built QuerÉtaro, a town that quickly thrived on agriculture and trade. Settlement accelerated as regional silver mines began to flourish in the 1550s. Silver tied the BajÍo to Europe and China; it stimulated the development of an unprecedented commercial, patriarchal, Catholic society. A frontier extended north across vast expanses settled by people of European, Amerindian, and African ancestry. As mining, cloth making, and irrigated cultivation increased, inequities deepened and religious debates escalated. Analyzing the political economy, social relations, and cultural conflicts that animated the BajÍo and Spanish North America from 1500 to 1800, John Tutino depicts an engine of global capitalism and the tensions that would lead to its collapse into revolution in 1810.

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• Titre: Making a New World : Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America
• Éditeur: Duke University Press Aug 2011
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0822349892
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780822349891
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 233 L x 154 H x 46 P (en millimètres) 233 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 46 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 994 grammes

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Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the Bajío, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and Querétaro, northwest of Mexico City. The Bajío became part of a new world in the 1530s, when Mesoamerican Otomís and Franciscan friars built Querétaro, a town that quickly thrived on agriculture and trade. Settlement accelerated as regional silver mines began to flourish in the 1550s. Silver tied the Bajío to Europe and China; it stimulated the development of an unprecedented commercial, patriarchal, Catholic society. A frontier extended north across vast expanses settled by people of European, Amerindian, and African ancestry. As mining, cloth making, and irrigated cultivation increased, inequities deepened and religious debates escalated. Analyzing the political economy, social relations, and cultural conflicts that animated the Bajío and Spanish North America from 1500 to 1800, John Tutino depicts an engine of global capitalism and the tensions that would lead to its collapse into revolution in 1810.

À propos de l'auteur

John Tutino teaches the history of Mexico and the Americas in the History Department and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, and a co-editor of Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.