The leverage of labor : managing the Cortés haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688
This work is an ethnohistorical investigation of the social and economic structure of the vast estates granted to the Cortes family in southern Mexico. Lolita Gutierrez 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.