BOOKS by Susan Deans-Smith

Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading more books like this

by Susan Deans-Smith (Editor), Eric Van Young (Editor)

David Brading is one of the foremost historians of Latin America in the United Kingdom. The essays in this volume convey the enduring nature of many of the questions raised by his work. They reflect the wide range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state building in nineteenth- ...

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Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico more books like this

by Susan Deans-Smith

A government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver tithe as the most valuable source of government income. This comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly ...

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Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America more books like this

by Ms. Ilona Katzew (Editor), Susan Deans-Smith (Editor)

This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The distinguished contributors to ...

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