a socioeconomic history, 1520-1720 MacLeod, Murdo J. creator text bibliography txu Austin, Texas University of Texas Press Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies 2008 1st University of Texas Press ed. monographic eng

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ix, 554 p. : ill., maps., forms. ; 23 cm. A new introduction : More than three decades of writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 / Murdo J. MacLeod -- 1. The Central American background and conquest -- 2. Slaves and silver : the first experts -- 3. Ephemeral hopes -- 4. Soconusco, a hint of things to come -- 5. The cacao boom -- 6. From conquest to the emergence of order and pattern -- 7. The two republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the age of Encomienda -- 8. Attempts to revive declining industries -- 9. The search for new industries and trades -- 10. Indigo, 1580-1720 : possibilites and frustrations -- 11. The effects of the crisis on local populations and economy -- 12. The aftermath of a boom : seventeenth-century cacao -- 13. Honduran mining : the emergence of a local industry and culture -- 14. External trades in hte depth of the depression -- 15. The currency crisis -- 16. Men and land in mid-century : contraction and isolation -- 17. The two republics in the years of depression -- 18. Costa Rican cacao -- 19. Signs of strain and change (c. 1685-1720) -- 20. The growth of a new solution : the rise of smuggling by Murdo J. MacLeod, with a new introduction. Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1973. With new introd. and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-511) and index. nc----- Central America Economic conditions Central America Social conditions America Central Condición Económica América Central Condición Social HC 141 M165s 2008 972.803 9780292717893 ( alk. paper) 029271789X ( alk. paper) 9780292717619 (pbk. : alk. paper) 029271761X (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007028941 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028941.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028941.html DLC 070712 20230410105449.0 84974