Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America

by John Tutino

Book Overview

Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the Bajío, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and Querétaro, northwest of Mexico City. The Bajío became part of a new world in the 1530s, when Mesoamerican Otomís and Franciscan friars built Querétaro, a town that quickly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349892
• ISBN13: 9780822349891
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"