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Author Barrett, Ward J

Title Sugar Hacienda of the Marqueses Del Valle
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1970

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE CORTÉS ESTATE; III. LEASING AND ADMINISTERING THE PLANTATION; IV. THE ACQUISITION OF LAND AND WATER; V. FIELD MANAGEMENT AND YIELDS; VI. SUGARMAKING TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT; VII. LIVESTOCK AND SUPPLIES; VIII. LABOR; IX. COSTS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR; X. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Appendixes; TABLES; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DOCUMENTS AND PRINTED SOURCES; INDEX
Summary This is a detailed history of a Mexican sugar plantation, the first such account to be published in English. The subject of the study is the Cortes plantation, which was established on the outskirts of Cuernavaca in about 1535 by Hernan Cortes, the conque
Bibliography Bibliography: p. [137]-139
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Sugar trade -- Mexico -- Morelos (State) -- History
Sugar growing -- Mexico -- Morelos (State) -- History
Sugar growing
Sugar trade
SUBJECT Valle de Oaxaca (New Spain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84227739
Subject Mexico -- Morelos (State)
North America -- Valle de Oaxaca (New Spain)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 74110146
ISBN 9780816661428
0816661421
0816657033
9780816657032