Adriaan C. Oss
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 236
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This is a cultural history based on a semi-quantitative method. After collecting series of data on population, economic production, church building, and maps, Van Oss reconstructs the characteristics of Central America as an autarkic colony, the development of colonial bishoprics over South America, and mendicant expansion in New Spain. Historical geographies of New Spain and early Venezuela as well as of the colonial city in Spanish America, Acámbaro and the Mexican state of Hidalgo (1930s) complete the picture.