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From Settler to Citizen - New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820 (Paperback, New Ed)
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From Settler to Citizen - New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The unique arts-and-crafts tradition of the American Southwest
illuminates this economic and social history of colonial New
Mexico, casting new light on the development of New Mexico's
Hispanic community and its changing relationship with Pueblo
Indians. Ross Frank's analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and
Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images - or santos - links
economic change to social and cultural change in this region. Using
these cultural artifacts to gauge shifts in power and status, Frank
charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating
Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades
of the eighteenth century. Contrary to previous views of this
period as an economic backwater, Frank shows that Spanish New
Mexico instead experienced growth that tied the region closely to
colonial economic reforms of the Spanish empire. The resulting
economic boom dramatically altered the balance of power between the
Spanish settlers and the Pueblo Indians, giving the vecinos the
incentive and the means to exploit their Pueblo Indian neighbors.
Frank shows that the vecinos used different strategies to take
control of the Pueblo textile and pottery trade. The Hispanic
community began to define its cultural identity through the
economic and social subordination of the Pueblo Indians. Connecting
economic change to powerful cultural and social changes, Frank
provides a new understanding of this 'borderlands' region of
northern New Spain in relatoin to the Spanish colonial history of
Mexico. At the same time, "From Settler to Citizen" recovers the
previously unexplored history of an important Hispanic community.
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