Building the King's Highway : labor, society, and family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757--1804 / Bruce A. Castleman

Author:: Castleman, Bruce A.
Published:: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2005]
Copyright Date:: ©2005
Physical Description:: xii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Tentacles of commerce : Caminos Reales in late Bourbon Mexico -- From draft to free-wage labor : projects around Xalapa during the mid-eighteenth century -- Times get tougher : the Puente de Escamela and the Toluca road -- Patterns of people's lives : society and family in Orizaba, 1777-1791.

Subject(s):

Road construction workers—Mexico—History—18th century
Roads—Mexico—History—18th century
Labor market—Mexico—History—18th century
Mexico—History—Spanish colony, 1540-1810
Mexico—Social conditions—18th century

ISBN:

0816524394 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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