Social and Ecological Impacts of Conquest and Colonization in New Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23426985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera S Candiani (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 17-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Mexican History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190699192.013.3 |
| OpenAlex | W3141032738 |
| ISBN | 9780190699192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Throughout continental New Spain—both the Mesoamerican heartland and the arid regions later conquered by the United States—colonization brought environmental changes through the social and political regimes that it deployed. Indigenous demographic decline, exotic organisms, mining, and relations of property and production in agriculture and pastoralism affected socioecosystems and transformed landscapes over time. Beyond the individual and aggregate impacts of biological invasions or the fact of newcomers’ presence, key research questions are how, through whom, and with what technological packages and logics the changes penetrated and became imbricated in preexisting socioecologies following the conquest. Hispanic appropriation of Amerindian landesque capital between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries might be compared to that of Christian colonists of Iberia as they took Muslim productive and urban landscapes between the twelfth and sixteenth: it allowed Spanish settlers to seize the opportunity when it came to extracting and generating wealth from newfound lands. This wealth was sustained by a pluriethnic peasantry whose persistence paradoxically also hindered the complete capitalist transformation of relations of property, production, and exchange of nature. The landscapes that resulted were not just variously Hispanized but also variously wrested from local, subsistence, communal control, indigenous or otherwise.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Colonization · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Geography · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · History
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |