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Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire - Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620 (Hardcover)
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Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire - Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620 (Hardcover)
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Between 1560 and 1620, a thousand or more people left the town of
Brihuega in Spain to migrate to New Spain (now Mexico), where
nearly all of them settled in Puebla de los Angeles, New Spain's
second most important city. A medium-sized community of about four
thousand people, Brihuega had been a center of textile production
since the Middle Ages, but in the latter part of the sixteenth
century its industry was in decline--a circumstance that induced a
significant number of its townspeople to emigrate to Puebla, where
conditions for textile manufacturing seemed ideal.
The immigrants from Brihuega played a crucial role in making Puebla
the leading textile producer in New Spain, and they were otherwise
active in the city's commercial-industrial sector as well. Although
some immigrants penetrated the higher circles of "poblano" society
and politics, for the most part they remained close to their
entrepreneurial and artisanal origins. Closely associated through
business, kinship, marital, and "compadrazgo" ties, and in
residential patterns, the Brihuega immigrants in Puebla constituted
a coherent and visible community.
This book uses the experiences and activities of the immigrants as
a basis for analyzing society in Brihuega and Puebla, making direct
comparisons between the two cities by examining such topics as
mobility and settlement; politics and public life; economic
activity; religious life; social relations; and marriage, family,
and kinship. In tracing the socioeconomic, cultural, and
institutional patterns of a town in Spain and a city in New
Spain--in all their connections, continuities, and
discontinuities--the book offers a new basis for understanding the
process and implications of the transference of these patterns
within the early modern Hispanic world.
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