The Moebius Strip

A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico

By: Jonathan D. Amith

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Hardcover | 10 October 2005

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The M bius Strip explores the history, political economy, and culture of space in central Guerrero, Mexico, during the colonial period. This study is significant for two reasons. First, space comprises a sphere of contention that affects all levels of society, from the individual and his or her household to the nation-state and its mechanisms for control and coercion. Second, colonialism offers a particularly unique situation, for it invariably involves a determined effort on the part of an invading society to redefine politico-administrative units, to redirect the flow of commodities and cash, and, ultimately, to foster and construct new patterns of allegiance and identity to communities, regions, and country. Thus spatial politics comprehends the complex interaction of institutional domination and individual agency. The complexity of the diachronic transformation of space in central Guerrero is illustrated through an analysis of land tenure, migration, and commercial exchange, three salient and contested aspects of hispanic conquest. The M bius Strip, therefore, addresses issues important to social theory and to the understanding of the processes affecting the colonialization of non-Western societies.

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"...this work presents what is arguably one of the most detailed socio-political and economic analyses to be written on any given region in colonial Spanish America." - Itinerario "Jonathan D. Amith's book is one of the most important works on colonial Mexican history to be published in the last decade." - American Historical Review "The Mobius Strip, a history of central Guerrero that includes cultural geography and anthropology, constitutes an ambitious study, one that is meticulously researched and artfully crafted, combining the methods and materials of economic, social, and environmental history." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review

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List of maps	p. ix
List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Conventions	p. xix
Orientation maps	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Terrain and Territoriality: The Natural and Social Context of Land and Property	p. 29
The Lay of the Land	p. 31
The Law of the Land: Crown Policy and Iberian Custom in the Colonization of New Spain	p. 70
Eppur si muove! The Dynamics of Economic Transformation in Rural Central Guerrero	p. 117
Land Acquisition during the Early Colonial Period	p. 119
Hacienda Formation and Market Structure: Landholding in North- and South-Central Guerrero	p. 154
Place Making and Place Breaking: Migration and the Development Cycle of Community	p. 217
The Politics of Economy and Space: Interjurisdictional Migration into the Iguala Valley	p. 255
Spaces of Capital and Commerce: Rural Society and the Interregional Economy of Central Guerrero	p. 292
The Transformation of Rural Society: Commercial Capital and the Monopolization of Resources	p. 386
Absolute Property and Spatial Politics: Struggles for Control over Grain in the Late Colonial Period	p. 457
The Political and Moral Economy of Subsistence: State Control of Grain Markets	p. 459
Seeds of Discord and Discontent: Grain, Regionalism, and Emerging Class Conflict	p. 497
Conclusion	p. 545
Conclusion	p. 547
Reference Matter	p. 555
Glossary	p. 557
Bibliography and abbreviations used in notes	p. 569
Index	p. 611
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