The Mobius Strip : A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico

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Part 1. Terrain and territoriality: the natural and social context of land and property. The lay of the landThe law of the land: crown policy and Iberian custom in the colonization of New Spain -- Part 2. Eppur si muove! The dynamics of economic transformation in rural central Guerrero. Land acquisition during the early colonial period -- Hacienda formation and market structure: landholding in north- and south-central Guerrero -- Place making and place breaking: migration and the development cycle of community -- The politics of economy and space: interjurisdictional migration in to the Iguala Valley -- Spaces of capital and commerce: rural society and the interregional economy of central Guerrero -- The transformation of rural society: commercial capital and the monopolization of resources -- Part 3. Absolute property and spatial politics: struggles for control over grain in the late colonial period. The political and moral economy of subsistence: state control of grain markets -- Seeds of discord and discontent: grain, regionalism, and emerging class conflict.

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