1st Edition

Studies In Spanishamerican Population History

By David J Robinson Copyright 1982
    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    Each of the contributions in this book sheds new light on key elements in the changing size, structure, and distribution of the Spanish American population during the colonial period. Several authors provide new source materials, while others manipulate well-known data in innovative ways to provide new insights into the past. In several of the essa

    Preface -- Introduction -- Population Reporting Systems: An Eighteenth-Century Paradigm of Spanish Imperial Organization -- Census Enumeration in Late Seventeenth-Century Alto Perú: The Numeración General of 1683-1684 -- Colonial Censuses and Tributary Lists of the Sabana de Bogotá Chibcha: Sources and Issues -- The Ecology of Race and Class in Late Colonial Oaxaca -- Marriage Patterns and Regional Interaction in Late Colonial Nueva Galicia -- Indian Migration in Eighteenth-Century Yucatán: The Open Nature of the Closed Corporate Community -- Population Change in the Quinizilapa Valley, Guatemala, 1530-1770 -- The Historical Demography of the Cuchumatán Highlands of Guatemala, 1500-1821 -- Demographic Catastrophe in Sixteenth-Century Honduras -- Eighteenth-Century Population Change in Andean Peru: The Parish of Yanque

    Biography

    David J. Robinson