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Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America. By John Tutino. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. x, 712. Maps. Illustrations. Epilogue. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. by Jacobsen, Nils is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America. By John Tutino. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. x, 712. Maps. Illustrations. Epilogue. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. about?

This massive study seeks to accomplish two highly ambitious goals. One is to lay out a Braudelian history of economy, society, gender relations, ethnicity, and religion in the Bajío, the fertile region of west-central Mexico that encompasses parts of the modern states of Guanajuato, Michoacán, and Querétaro) from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, with ramifications through the entire north of colonial New Spain. At the same time, Tutino offers a bold, sweeping and new interpretation of what he calls "Spanish North America" in the context of a rising world capitalist economy. He does so with a tantalizing mix of broad-stroke, dynamic, and often daring interpretations and finely chiseled, deeply researched empirical portraits of the changing lives in the towns, mines, workshops, estates, and communities of the region. It is a masterful panorama of three centuries of history with thought-provoking but in some regards troubling interpretive lines.

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Author

Jacobsen, Nils

Publisher

Catholic University of America Press; Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 0003-1615)

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences