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Title:Reshaping New Spain : Government & Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550
Author:Ethelia Ruiz Medrano; Translated by Julia Constantino & Pauline Marmasse
ISBN:0870818147 : 9780870818141
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:320
Weight: .59 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - January 2006
List Price: 43.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Local history: Mexico


The first English edition of Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana traces development of colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land and labour laws in bureaucrats' favour.

The First Attempts at Royal Control Over the Territory: Policy of the Second Audiencia, 1531-1535; Reshaping New Spain: The Policy of Viceroy Mendoza, 1535-1550; A Royal Official as Entrepreneur: The Case of Oidor Lorenzo de Tejada; Conclusions.