Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550 Ethelia
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Ruiz Medrano
                                                                
                                    2020-04-20 07:54:36
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550 Ethelia
                                            
                                                            by Ruiz Medrano
                                                        
                                2020-04-20 07:54:36
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                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 coloni...
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                                                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.
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