Table of Contents for
The Möbius Strip
List of maps
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Orientation maps
1. Introduction
Part 1. Terrain and Territoriality: The Natural and Social Context of Land and Property
2. The Lay of the Land
3. The Law of the Land: Crown Policy and Iberian Custom in the Colonization of New Spain
Part 2. Eppur si muove: The Dynamics of Economic Transformation in Rural Central Guerrero
4. Land Acquisition during the Early Colonial Period
5. Hacienda Formation and Market Structure: Landholding in North- and South-Central Guerrero
6. Place Making and Place Breaking: Migration and the Development Cycle of Community
7. The Politics of Economy and Space: Interjurisdictional Migration into the Iguala Valley
8. Spaces of Capital and Commerce: Rural Society and the Interregional Economy of Central Guerrero
9. The Transformation of Rural Society: Commercial Capital and the Monopolization of Resources
Part 3. Absolute Property and Spatial Politics: Struggles for Control over Grain in the Late Colonial Period
10. The Political and Moral Economy of Subsistence: State Control of Grain Markets
11. Seeds of Discord and Discontent: Grain, Regionalism, and Emerging Class Conflict
12. Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography and abbreviations used in notes
Index