The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archi

This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, covers the period 1521 to 1821.

Combining social, political, and economic history, Louisa Schell Hoberman examines a neglected period in Mexico's colonial past, providing the first book-length

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates

This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new marke