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The Dynamics of Clio: Periodization in the Social History of Colonial Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Cheryl English Martin*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, El Paso
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Professor Carmagnani has identified major themes and tendencies that have characterized recent studies on the social history of colonial Mexico. He correctly observes that historians have paid closer attention to the connections between population and resources, to the differences among regions, and to the internal development of Indian society. Moreover, he explains how advances in demography, economic history, and ethnohistory have all contributed toward a continued shift in emphasis away from political or “institutional” perspectives.

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Commentary and Debate
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

To save space, full citations will be given only for works not included in Professor Carmagnani's bibliography.

1. Probably typhus, although according to Elsa Malvido, an acute form of hepatitis.

2. Morin, Michoacán, pp. 48–59; Malvido, “Factores”; Calvo, Acatzingo; Morin, Santa Inés Zacatelco; Cheryl E. Martin, “Demographic Trends in Colonial Morelos,” in Unity and Diversity in Colonial Spanish America, edited by Richard E. Greenleaf (New Orleans: Tulane University Press, forthcoming).

3. David Brading, “Tridentine Catholicism and Enlightened Despotism in Bourbon Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies 15 (1983):1-22, see p. 2.

4. Cooper, Epidemic Disease; Martin, “Demographic Trends.”

5. Van Young, Hacienda and Market, p. 117; Taylor, Landlord and Peasant, p. 141; Florescano, Precios del maíz, p. 183; Cheryl E. Martin, Rural Society in Colonial Morelos (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming), chap. 4.

6. Richard B. Lindley, Haciendas and Economic Development: Guadalajara, Mexico, at Independence (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983), pp. 120–21.

7. Peter Gerhard, “La evolución del pueblo rural mexicano: 1519–1975,” Historia Mexicana 24 (1975):335–52.

8. Martin, Rural Society, chap. 8 and conclusion.