Table of Contents for The Möbius Strip

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