Möbius Strip

Jonathan D. Amith is an independent scholar who has been affiliated with Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College, and the University of Chicago. He has previously edited a volume on the politics and culture of indigenous art: The Amate Tradition: Innovation and Protest in Mexican Art (1995).

• Contents List of Maps, Figures, and Tablesxxx Acknowledgments Conventions Orientation Maps Chapter 1: Introduction1 Part 1: Terrain and Territoriality: The Natural and Social Context of Land and Property Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land Chapter 3: The Law of the Land Part 2: Eppur si muove: The Dynamics of Economic Transformation in Rural Central Guerrero Chapter 4: Land Acquisition during the Early Colonial Period Chapter 5: Hacienda Formation and Market Structure: A Comparison of Landholding Patterns in North- and South-Central Guerrero Chapter 6: From the Recuperation to the Production of Place: Intraregional Migration and the Development Cycle of Community Chapter 7: The Politics of Economy and Space: Interjurisdictional Migration into the Iguala Valley Chapter 8: Spaces of Capital and Commerce: Rural Society and the Interregional Economy of Central Guerrero Chapter 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 Chapter 10: The Political and Moral Economy of Subsistence: State Control of Grain Markets Chapter 11: Seeds of Discord and Discontent: Grain, Regionalism, and Emerging Class Conflict Chapter 12: Conclusion Reference Matter Glossary Bibliography and abbreviations used in notes Index

"The Mobius Strip, a history of central Guerrero that includes cultural geography and anthropology, constitutes an ambitious study, one that is meticulously researched and artfully crafted, combining the methods and materials of economic, social, and environmental history." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review "Jonathan D. Amith's book is one of the most important works on colonial Mexican history to be published in the last decade." - American Historical Review "...this work presents what is arguably one of the most detailed socio-political and economic analyses to be written on any given region in colonial Spanish America." - Itinerario