Reshaping New Spain - Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535

Originally published in Mexico as "Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana," Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study" Reshaping New Spain" is now available in an updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land ownership and labor laws to favor the new bureaucrats. This portrait of the emerging government in New Spain fills a critical niche in Latin American studies.

About the author

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano is a researcher at the Direccion de Estudios Historicos, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico and a visiting professor at The Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of 3 books with the University Press of Colorado, and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

Product details

• Authors: Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia Ruiz/ Constantine Medrano, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
• Assisted by: Julia Constantine (Translation), Pauline Marmasse (Translation)
• Publisher: University Press Of Colorado
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2012
• EAN: 9781607321866
• ISBN: 978-1-60732-186-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas