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306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953-1958.
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2 v., "It includes what is probably the most reliable version of the Laws of Burgos in print (the comparable text of the New Laws appears, however, only in fragmentary form). It fills lacunae in the details of imperial policies for encomienda, native labor, slavery, cacicazgos, and ethnosocial relationships, especially of the latter sixteenth century." --Charles Gibson (JSTOR)
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282 p., Prior tO 1640, When the Regular Slave Trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest importer of slaves in the Americas. Even so, slavery never supplanted indigenous labor in the colony, and by the second half of the 17th century there were more free Afromexicans than slaves in Mexico.
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280 p, Contents: Introduction: Family, Frontier, and the Colonization of the Americas --; Indians, Portuguese, and Mamelucos: The Sixteenth-Century Colonization of Sao Vicente --; Town, Kingdom, and Wilderness --; The Origins of Social Class --; Families of Planters --; Families of Peasants --; Families of Slaves --; Conclusion: Family and Frontier at Independence --; Town of Santana de Parnaiba --; Sao Vicente in the Age of the Bandeiras --; Sao Paulo and the Gold Rush --; Towns of Colonial Sao Paulo --; Population of Principal Towns of Sao Vicente, 1676 --; Deaths among Social Groups, Parish of Aracariguama, 1720-1731 --; Two Agricultural Economies: Income from Crops by Class of Farmer, 1798 --; Landownership by Class of Farmer, 1775 --; The Town Center in 1798 --; Race and Class in Parnaiba, 1820 --; Division of Mariana Pais's Estate, 1740 --; Composition of Planter Family Estates, Eighteenth Century --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of Mariana Pais, Great-Great-Granddaughter of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; The Planters of Parnaiba --; Land Use Patterns of the Peasantry, 1775 --; Godparents of Peasant Children --; Households Headed by Men and Women, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Urban and Rural Family Structure, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Female-headed Households, Peasant Population, 1775 and 1820 --; African and Creole Slaves, 1820 --; Crude Marriage Rates, Slave and Free Populations --; Slave Marriages, Santana Parish, 1726-1820 --; Slave Families on Three Large Estates, 1740s
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
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352 p., In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. This title explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government.
