TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacLeod,Murdo J.
TI  - Spanish Central America: a socioeconomic history, 1520-1720 
SN  - 9780292717893 ( alk. paper)
AV  - HC 141 M165s 2008
U1  - 972.803 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Austin, Texas
PB  - University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
KW  - Central America
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - America Central
KW  - Condición Económica
KW  - América Central
KW  - Condición Social
N1  - Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1973. With new introd. and index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-511) and index; A new introduction : More than three decades of writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 / Murdo J. MacLeod -- 1. The Central American background and conquest -- 2. Slaves and silver : the first experts -- 3. Ephemeral hopes -- 4. Soconusco, a hint of things to come -- 5. The cacao boom -- 6. From conquest to the emergence of order and pattern -- 7. The two republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the age of Encomienda -- 8. Attempts to revive declining industries -- 9. The search for new industries and trades -- 10. Indigo, 1580-1720 : possibilites and frustrations -- 11. The effects of the crisis on local populations and economy -- 12. The aftermath of a boom : seventeenth-century cacao -- 13. Honduran mining : the emergence of a local industry and culture -- 14. External trades in hte depth of the depression -- 15. The currency crisis -- 16. Men and land in mid-century : contraction and isolation -- 17. The two republics in the years of depression -- 18. Costa Rican cacao -- 19. Signs of strain and change (c. 1685-1720) -- 20. The growth of a new solution : the rise of smuggling
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028941.html
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