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John Coatsworth has produced some of the most instantly
recognisable images of Tyneside over the last 12 years. This
beautiful book includes many of the famous Newcastle landmarks
including the Quayside, the Tyne Bridge, Grey Street and St James'
Park have all been depicted in his unique 'bendy' style. This
dramatic and distinctive style is in great demand.
The first textbook to present world history via social history,
drawing on social science methods and research. This
interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is
authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and
offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for
undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of
hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the
Middle Ages. The book pays particular attention to the ways in
which ordinary people lived through the great changes of their
times, and how everyday experience connects to great political
events and the commercial exchanges of an interconnected world.
With 65 maps, 45 illustrations, timelines, boxes, and primary
source extracts, the book moves students easily from particular
historical incidents to broader perspectives, enabling them to use
historical material and social science methodologies to analyze the
events of the past, present and future.
This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial
period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver
anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction
and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's
economic and rural development, a period when one of history's
great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most
important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both
expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the
development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed
estates of late colonial Mexico, the central economic and social
institution of an overwhelmingly rural society. With rich empirical
detail, he meticulously describes the features of the rural
economy, including patterns of land ownership, credit and
investment, labor relations, the structure of production, and the
relationship of a major colonial city to its surrounding area. The
book's most interesting and innovative element is its emphasis on
the way the system of rural economy shaped, and was shaped by, the
internal logic of a great spatial system, the region of
Guadalajara. Van Young argues that Guadalajara's population growth
progressively integrated the large geographical region surrounding
the city through the mechanisms of the urban market for grain and
meat, which in turn put pressure on local land and labor resources.
Eventually this drove white and Indian landowners into increasingly
sharp conflict 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 insurrection for most of
the decade during Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain. By
highlighting the way haciendas worked and changed over time, this
indispensable study illuminates Mexico's economic and social
history, the movement for independence, and the origins of the
Mexican Revolution.
This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial
period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver
anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction
and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's
economic and rural development, a period when one of history's
great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most
important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both
expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the
development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed
estates of late colonial Mexico, the central economic and social
institution of an overwhelmingly rural society. With rich empirical
detail, he meticulously describes the features of the rural
economy, including patterns of land ownership, credit and
investment, labor relations, the structure of production, and the
relationship of a major colonial city to its surrounding area. The
book's most interesting and innovative element is its emphasis on
the way the system of rural economy shaped, and was shaped by, the
internal logic of a great spatial system, the region of
Guadalajara. Van Young argues that Guadalajara's population growth
progressively integrated the large geographical region surrounding
the city through the mechanisms of the urban market for grain and
meat, which in turn put pressure on local land and labor resources.
Eventually this drove white and Indian landowners into increasingly
sharp conflict 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 insurrection for most of
the decade during Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain. By
highlighting the way haciendas worked and changed over time, this
indispensable study illuminates Mexico's economic and social
history, the movement for independence, and the origins of the
Mexican Revolution.
Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of
modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal
dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic
growth from the last decades of the nineteenth century to 1930. It
explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to
the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the
return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it
looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the
environment.
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America provides access to
the current state of expert knowledge about Latin America's
economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the
twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse perspectives,
disciplines, and methodologies from qualitative historical analysis
of policies and institutions to cliometrics, the new institutional
economics, and environmental sciences. Each chapter provides a
comparative analysis of economic trends, sectoral development, or
the evolution of the institutional and policy environment. Volume
one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking
Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and
African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and
environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of
colonial economic institutions, and the performance of key sectors
of the colonial and immediate post-colonial economies. Finally, it
analyses of the costs and benefits of independence.
The first textbook to present world history via social history,
drawing on social science methods and research. This
interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is
authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and
offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for
undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of
hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the
Middle Ages. The book pays particular attention to the ways in
which ordinary people lived through the great changes of their
times, and how everyday experience connects to great political
events and the commercial exchanges of an interconnected world.
With 65 maps, 45 illustrations, timelines, boxes, and primary
source extracts, the book moves students easily from particular
historical incidents to broader perspectives, enabling them to use
historical material and social science methodologies to analyze the
events of the past, present and future.
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