Bookmark

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

Availability

Finding items...

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.

View MARC record | catkey: 2843174

Actions for Building the King&#39;s Highway : labor, society, and family on Mexico&#39;s Caminos Reales, 1757--1804

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

Availability

Actions for Building the King's Highway : labor, society, and family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757--1804