Leverage of Labor Managing the Cortes Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688

This work is an ethnohistorical investigation of the social and economic structure of the vast estates granted to the Cortés family in southern Mexico. Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington deals with landholding patterns, agricultural production, and the social organization and use of native Indian and African slave labor on these estates, thereby shedding a great deal of light on this little-known early colonial period.Brockington, Lolita G. is the author of 'Leverage of Labor Managing the Cortes Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688' with ISBN 9780822308843 and ISBN 0822308843.