Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of maps ix
4. List of figures xi
5. List of tables xiii
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Conventions xix
8. Orientation maps xx
9. 1. Introduction 1
10. Part 1. Terrain and Territoriality: The Natural and Social Context of Land and Property
11. 2. The Lay of the Land 31
12. 3. The Law of the Land: Crown Policy and Iberian Custom in the Colonization of New Spain 70
13. Part 2. Eppur si muove! The Dynamics of Economic Transformation in Rural Central Guerrero
14. 4. Land Acquisition during the Early Colonial Period 119
15. 5. Hacienda Formation and Market Structure: Landholding in North- and South-Central Guerrero 154
16. 6. Place Making and Place Breaking: Migration and the Development Cycle of Community 217
17. 7. The Politics of Economy and Space: Interjurisdictional Migration into the Iguala Valley 255
18. 8. Spaces of Capital and Commerce: Rural Society and the Interregional Economy of Central Guerrero 292
19. 9. The Transformation of Rural Society: Commercial Capital and the Monopolization of Resources 386
20. Part 3. Absolute Property and Spatial Politics: Struggles for Control over Grain in the Late Colonial Period
21. 10. The Political and Moral Economy of Subsistence: State Control of Grain Markets 459
22. 11. Seeds of Discord and Discontent: Grain, Regionalism, and Emerging Class Conflict 497
23. Conclusion
24. 12. Conclusion 547
25. Reference Matter
26. Glossary 557
27. Bibliography and abbreviations used in notes 569
28. Index 611