Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: ESEARCH on elite groups in Latin America has made enormous progress during the last few years,' as have studies focused on the relationships between family structures and the world of power and business.2 In this work we propose to follow those same lines of analysis, from a perspective that combines economic and social history, prosopography, and microhistory. Our immediate goal is to draw a picture of the dominant landholding and commercial groups in the socioeconomic life of a Mexican provincial village, Tepeaca, during almost two centuries. We will trace some members through the Bourbon reform era, insurgencies, the imperial adventure,
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2327046450