Migration in Colonial Spanish America
Published on 15. February 1990
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-521-36281-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, the studies will attract the attention of all Latin American specialists. They provide conclusive evidence of the ubiquity of migration in the early modern period, challenging views of immobile peasants held in the grip of static colonialism. They show that to migrate was one of the most important means of coping with Spanish colonialism. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and interpretations that are novel and represent important contributions to colonial Latin American studies. They address the basic questions of who migrated, why did they migrate, how can one interpret migration fields, what role did economic opportunity or ecological conditions play, and not least, what was the impact of migrants on non-migrant communities in both rural and urban areas. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social/racial change.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection of 15 essays by geographers and historians offers a series of enlightening and insightful vignettes on the colonial period. It explores the movements of different groups of people throughout colonial Spanish America, the reasons for their mobility, and it enriches our understanding of the era." Martha A. Works, Journal of Cultural Geography "The collection is a font of information on migration in colonial Spanish America. The discussions of new directions for future empirical and theoretical studies of migration in colonial Spanish America are of special importance." Geographical Review "...represents a compendium of insightful and recent research on the subject....This book has many points that recommend it both to the specialist and the general reader....a real asset to students of colonial Spanish America." Susan E. Ramirez, Colonial Latin American Review "Migration in Colonial Spanish America is a recent addition to the distinguished series, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. The editor, David J. Robinson, is a leader in the field of Latin American demographic studies....The most common theme running through the essays, as Robinson points out in his excellent introduction, is the ubiquity of migration....Most of these well-crafted essays are based on detailed analyses of primary data....much can be learned from these essays about such aspects of migration as distance, direction, timing, types of destinations, reasons for migrating, and characteristics of migrants such as age, sex, social class, ethnicity, and occupation." Elinore M. Barrett, The Professional Geographer "...one of the most striking qualities of this volume is the extent to which the individual studies, while distinct and mostly relatively narrow in focus, reinforce and correlate with one another to a degree rarely achieved in anthologies. This is an important publication that every scholar and student of Spanish American colonial history should read." The AmericasMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
829 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-36281-8 (9780521362818)
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Content
List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America David J. Robinson; 2. Indian migration and community formation: an analysis of congregacion in colonial Guatemala George Lovell and William R. Swezey; 3. Migration in colonial Peru: an overview Noble David Cook; 4. Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century Brian Evans; 5. '... residente en esa ciudad ...': urban migrants in colonial Cuzco Ann Wightman; 6. Frontier workers and social change: Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century Ann Zulawski; 7. Student migration to colonial urban centers: Guadalajara and Lima Carman Castaneda; 8. Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico Michael M. Swann; 9. Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649-1749 Elsa Malvido; 10. Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico John Kicza; 11. Marriage, migration, and settling down: Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770-1788 Robert McCaa; 12. Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico Rodney Watson; 13. Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700-1850 Hector Perez Brignoli; 14. Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes Edda O. Samudio A.; 15. Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito: Crown manipulation and local co-optation Karen Powers; Notes; Index.