Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
10 - The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
The rural history of Spanish South America finally began to receive some attention from scholars during the 1970s. Even now, far more research is devoted to the large estates than to smallholders and comunidades. See Magnus Morner, ‘The Spanish American hacienda: A survey of recent research and debate’, HAHR, 53/2 (1973), 183–216; articles by Reinhard Liehr in H. J. Puhle (ed.), Lateinamerika: Historische Realität und Dependencia-Theorien (Hamburg, 1976), 105–46, and H. Pietschmann in G. Siebenmann (ed.), Die lateinamerikanische Hacienda: Ihre Rolle in der Geschichte von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Diessenhofen, 1979), 37–48. Interesting perspectives are provided by Cristóbal Kay, ‘Desarrollo comparativo del sistema señorial europeo y del sistema de hacienda latinoamericano’, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 31 (1976), 681–723. Agricultural productivity and technology during the colonial period have until now received very little attention. An old but still important study of the legal aspects is J. M. Ots Capdequí, El régimen de la tierra en la América española durante el período colonial (Ciudad Trujillo, 1946).
A general survey of Peruvian rural history is provided by V. Roel Pineda, Historia social y económica de la Colonia (Lima, 1970). More recent monographs include R. G. Keith, Conquest and Agrarian Change: The Emergence of the Hacienda System on the Peruvian Coast (Cambridge, Mass., 1976); M. Burga, De la encomienda a la hacienda capitalista: El Valle de Jequetepeque del siglo XVI al XX (Lima, 1976); Keith A. Davies, Landowners in Colonial Peru (Austin, Tex., 1984), which deals with Arequipa; S. E. Ramírez-Horton, Provincial Patriarchs: Land Tenure and the Economies of Power in Colonial Peru (Albuquerque, N.Mex., 1986), which deals with Lambayeque province; and M. Mörner, Perfil de la sociedad rural del Cuzco a fines de la colonia (Lima, 1978).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 89 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995