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This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed estates of late colonial

Agriculture --- Produce trade --- Haciendas --- Estancias --- Fazendas --- Fundos --- Farms --- Land tenure --- Plantations --- Ranches --- Latifundio --- Agricultural marketing --- Agricultural products --- Food trade --- Food industry and trade --- Commodity exchanges --- Farm produce --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- History

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The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself.

World politics --- State, The --- History --- S02/0200 --- S04/0400 --- S04/0680 --- S24/0900 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: History--General works: China --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- Tibet--Religion and philosophy --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- World politics - 19th century --- World politics - 20th century --- State, The - History - 19th century --- State, The - History - 20th century