Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
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Mexico's Indigenous Communities
Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010
By Ethelia Ruiz Medrano; Translated by Russ Davidson
University Press of Colorado
A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past.
Reshaping New Spain
Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550
University Press of Colorado
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
Negotiation within Domination
New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
University Press of Colorado
Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2016
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