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Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century

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Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century - Martin, Richard English
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This book is a richly detailed examination of social interaction in the city of Chihuahua, a major silver mining center of colonial Mexico. Founded at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the city attracted people from all over New Spain, all summoned "by the voices of the mines of Chihuahua." These included aspiring miners and merchants, mestizo and mulato workers and drifters, Tarahumara Indians indigenous to the area, Yaquis from Sonora, and Apaches from New Mexico. Several hundred Spaniards, principally from ...

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Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century 2000, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804741682

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