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  • Society in the Spanish American Colonies

  • Julia Hirschberg
  • Journal:
    Latin American Research Review / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 October 2022, pp. 227-232
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  • An Alternative to Encomienda: Puebla's Indios de Servicio, 1531–45

  • Julia Hirschberg
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / November 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 February 2009, pp. 241-264
    Print publication:
    November 1979

  • Dominating the early decades of Spain's New World settlement was the question of how best to apportion the fruits of conquest. Colonists urged Repartimiento General, the division among worthy settlers of all lands in señorio and all indians in hereditary encomienda. Only aristocratic rewards, they claimed, could attract men of quality to the New World. Only caballeros could hold colonies already won and conquer more lands for Spain. Yet, if such demands were met, the Crown could expect little profit from its colonial empire, however large and secure.