This book explains the development of a regional agrarian system,
centered on the rural estate (hacienda), in late colonial Mexico,
in the area of Guadalajara. It describes the features of the rural
economy-patterns of land ownership, credit and investment, labor
relations, the structure of production, the relationship of a major
colonial city to its surrounding area, and so forth. The thesis is
that the population growth of Guadalajara progressively integrated
the large geographical region surrounding the city through the
mechanisms of the urban market for grain and meat, and that this in
turn put pressure on local land and labor resources. Eventually
this drove white and Indian landowners into increasingly sharp
conflict with each other and led to the progressive
proletarianization of the region's peasantry during the last
decades of the Spanish colonial era. It is no accident, given this
history, that the Guadalajara region was one of the major areas of
armed conflict for most of the decade during the Mexican struggle
for independence from Spain (1810-1821).
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