From Settler to Citizen New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820

Name: From Settler to Citizen New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820
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ISBN: 9780520251595

ISBN-10: 0520251598

ISBN-13: 9780520251595

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ross Frank

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The unique arts-and-crafts tradition of the American Southwest illuminates this economic and social history of colonial New Mexico, casting new light on the development of New Mexico's Hispanic community and its changing relationship with Pueblo Indians. Ross Frank's analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images--or santos--links economic change to social and cultural change in this region. Using these cultural artifacts to gauge shifts in power and status, Frank charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler--or vecino--community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Contrary to previous views of…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 353
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ross Frank is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.



List of Illustrations and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


A Note About Translations


Abbreviations


Introduction



"Like a Ball in the Hands of Fortune": New Mexican Economy through the 1770s



"If We Should Lose New Mexico a Second Time": Bourbon Reform, Indian Policy, and the Alliances of the 1780s



"This Type of Commerce Cannot Remedy Itself": Obstacles to Economic Growth in New Mexico and the Bourbon Response



New Mexican Economic Development, 1780-1820



Creating Vecinos: Cultural Transformation


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary of Colonial Spanish Terms


Bibliography


Index