Defending corporate identity on new Spain's northeastern frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, 1780-1810

Americas

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-375

  Offutt, Leslie S ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60949613920     PISSN: 00031615     EISSN: 15336247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tam.2008.0018     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. James Lockhart's work on corporate identity, in "Views of Corporate Self and History in Some Valley of Mexico Towns: Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," in George A. Collier, Renato Rosaldo, and John D. Wirth, eds., The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800 (New York: Academic Press, 1982) has shaped my perspective on San Esteban's efforts to defend its interests
2. See as well Robert Haskett, "Visions of Municipal Glory Undimmed: The Nahuatl Town Histories of Colonial Cuernavaca," Colonial Latin American Historical Review 1:1 (Fall 1992), pp. 1-36
3. Steve J. Stern, Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987); the phrase quoted is on p. 9
4. Susan M. Deeds, Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)
5. Cynthia Radding, Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997); the phrase quoted is on p. 3
6. Radding, Wandering Peoples, p. 1
7. Vito Alessio Robles, Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (México: Editorial Porrúa, 1978 [1938]
8. Coahuila y Texas desde la consumación de la Independencia hasta el tratado de paz de Guadalupe Hidalgo (México: Antiguo Librería Robredo, 1946)
9. Acapulco, Saltillo, y Monterrey en la historia y en la leyenda (México: Editorial Porrúa, 1978)
10. Eugenio del Hoyo, Historia del Nuevo Reino de León (1577-1723) (Monterrey: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 1972)
11. see as well his compilation of documents on northeastern Indians in Esclavitud y encomiendas de indios en el Nuevo Reino de León, siglos XVI y XVII (Monterrey: Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León, 1985)
12. Patricia Osante, Orígenes del Nuevo Santander (1748-1772) (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, 1997)
13. José Cuello, Saltillo colonial: Orígenes y formación de una sociedad mexicana en la frontera norte (Saltillo: Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, 2004)
14. El norte, el noreste y Saltillo en la historia colonial de México (Saltillo: Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, 1990), several chapters of which are translations of articles appearing elsewhere in English
15. Leslie S. Offutt, Saltillo 1770-1810: Town and Region in the Mexican North (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001)
16. Una sociedad urbana y rural en el norte de México: Saltillo a fines de la época colonial (Saltillo: Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, 1993), a Spanish translation of my 1982 UCLA dissertation
17. David B. Adams, Las colonias Tlaxcaltecas de Coahuila y Nuevo León en la Nueva España: un aspecto de la colonización del norte de México (Saltillo: Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, 1991)
18. the most relevant of his articles to Saltillo and San Esteban is "Borderland Communities in Conflict: Saltillo, San Esteban, and the Struggle for Municipal Autonomy, 1591-1838," Locus, 6:1 (Fall 1993), which treats many of the aspects of resistance that I focus on in this inquiry but de-emphasises the cooperative aspects of the relationship between the two towns
19. Sergio Antonio Corona Páez, La vitivinicultura en el pueblo de Santa María de las Parras: Producción de vinos, vinagres y aguardientes bajo elparadigma andaluz (siglos XVII y XVIII) (Torreón, Coahuila: Ayuntamiento de Torreón, 2004)
20. "Reflexiones en torno a las identidades nativas en el noreste colonial," Relaciones 92 (otoño 2002), vol. XXIII, pp. 77-106
21. "'Indios madrineros': colonizadores tlaxcaltecas en el noreste novohispano." Estudios de historia novohispana 24 (2001), pp. 15-51
22. Andrea Martínez Baracs, "Colonizaciones tlaxcaltecas," Historia mexicana 43:2 (oct.-dic. 1993), pp. 195-250
23. Peter Gerhard, The North Frontier of New Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 219-20, 325
24. Alonso Mota y Escobar, Descripción geográfica de los reinos de Nueva Galicia, Nueva Vizcaya y Nuevo León. Segunda edición, introducción por Joaquín Ramírez Cabañas (México: Editorial Pedro Robredo, 1940), pp. 162-63
25. Alejandro de Humboldt, Ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España. (México: Editorial Porrúa, 1978), p. 259
26. Alessio Robles, Coahuila y Texas ... época colonial, pp. 123-36, is the standard treatment from the Saltillo perspective
27. see as well Charles Gibson, Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967 [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952], pp. 181-89, on late sixteenth-century Tlaxcalan colonies more generally
28. For the duties of the protector de indios, see Alessio Robles, Coahuila y Texas. . .época colonial, p. 294, n. 13
29. Sheridan, '"Indios madrineros,'" p. 44
30. "Tlaxcalan Colonies," pp. 263-67
31. Kelly Pohl et al, "A Cool Season Precipitation Reconstruction for Saltillo, Mexico." Tree-Ring Research, 59:1 (2003), p. 17
32. North American Drought Atlas, "Animation: Tree-Ring Reconstructed Drought," at http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES;.LDEO/.TRL/.NADA2004/. pdsi-atlas.html
33. D. A. Brading and Celia Wu's "Population Growth and Crisis: León, 1720-1860," Journal of Latin American Studies 5 (1973), pp. 1-36
34. and Brading's Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajío: León, 1700-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)
35. especially chapter 8, examine the demographic impact of scarcity, as does Michael M. Swann in "The Demographic Impact of Disease and Famine in Late Colonial Northern Mexico," in William V. Davidson and James J. Parsons, ed., Historical Geography of Latin America: Papers in Honor of Robert C. West (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), pp. 97-109
36. Radding considers physical mobility and the blurring of ethnic identities in addition to disease in her examination of the demographic fluidity in northwestern New Spain, in Wandering Peoples, chapter 4
37. APSE, Difunciones, Vol. 3, 1773-1807, entries from March 1-May 31, 1785; APS, Difunciones, Vol. 3, 1773-1785, entries from March 1-June 30, 1785
38. APSE, Difunciones, Vol. 3, 1773-1807, libro de entierros, April 16-June 30, 1798; April 9-June 24, 1780
39. APSE, Difunciones, Vol. 3, 1773-1807, entries from August 1-October 31, 1804; APS, Difunciones, Vol. 5, 1802-1808, entries from July 1-October 31, 1804