Saltillo, 1770-1810
Subtitle: Town and Region in the Mexican North
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780816521647
Subjects: Mexico; Social conditions; Land use; Economic conditions; Business / Economics / Finance; Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico); History: World; Saltillo (Coahuila); Latin America - Mexico; Economic History; Commerce; History
Description: "At the end of the eighteenth century, the community of Saltillo in north-eastern Mexico was a thriving hub of commerce. Over the previous hundred years its population had doubled to 11,000, and the town was no longer limited to a peripheral role in the country's economy. Leslie Offutt examines the social and economic history of this major late-colonial trading center to cast new light on our understanding of Mexico's regional history.".

"Drawing on a vast amount of original research, Offutt contends that northern Mexico in general has too often been misportrayed as a backwater frontier region, and she shows how Saltillo assumed a significance that set it apart from other towns in the northern reaches of New Spain."--BOOK JACKET.