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Conquest by Contract: Property Rights and the Commercial Logic of Imperialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Southern Mexico)

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 557-572, September 2022., 2022
Property rights and contracts were important to the legal foundations of the Spanish Empire from the sixteenth century. The recognition of the property rights of indigenous people was part of the legal foundations of empire, but offered weak protection from the commercial logic of imperialism.
Julia McClure
wiley   +1 more source

Simpson's the Encomienda in New Spain and Recent Encomienda Studies [PDF]

open access: yesThe Hispanic American Historical Review, 1954
IN 1929 LESLIE BYRD SIMPSON brought out his fine study The Encornenda in New Spain: Forced Native Labor in the Spanish Colonies,1 which represented pioneering and well-deservedly became a landmark in the study of the encomienda system. His 1950 revision and refinement of this work, The Encomienda in New Spain: the Beginning of Spanish Mexico,2 is so ...
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Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

open access: yesAustralian Economic History Review, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 2-25, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long‐run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarises some recent research on forced displacement in economic history.
Sascha O. Becker
wiley   +1 more source

Edible mycorrhizal fungi of the world: What is their role in forest sustainability, food security, biocultural conservation and climate change?

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 3, Issue 5, Page 471-490, September 2021., 2021
Edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF) have been consumed since ancestral times by humans either as food, medicine, or for ceremonial use. Nowadays, they are a non‐timber forest product and a diverse genetic resource with great ecological, sociocultural, economic, medicinal, and biotechnological relevance around the world. Therefore, they have a paramount role
Jesús Pérez‐Moreno   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do people manage climate risk through long‐distance relationships?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 33, Issue 4, July/August 2021., 2021
Abstract Objectives Long‐distance social relationships have been a feature of human evolutionary history; evidence from the paleoanthropological, archeological, and ethnographic records suggest that one function of these relationships is to manage the risk of resource shortfalls due to climate variability.
Anne C. Pisor, James Holland Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Los repartimientos reales: el caso de Chucuito (Perú) en el siglo XVI

open access: yesFronteras de la Historia, 2004
En este artículo se hace un análisis de las encomiendas en cabeza de la corona en la provincia de Chucuito (Perú), antiguo asentamiento del reino Lupaqa, espacio que jamás tuvo encomendero alguno.
Héctor Omar Noejovich   +1 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Baculamento or Encomienda? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Global Slavery, 2017
This article examines pan-Atlantic legal jurisdictions in the early Atlantic world to argue that the legal domains of people nominally conquered by Iberian powers are of fundamental importance to understanding the emergence of subjectivities in Atlantic Africa during the era of the slave trade.
openaire   +1 more source

Otavalo: el proceso de formación de un corregimiento de indios en la audiencia de Quito (1535-1623)

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2006
The article analyzes the different aspects of a political process which started with the first encomienda concessions and was followed, after the Civil Wars, by the attempts to organize a local administration which lead to the establishment of the ...
Christiana Borchart de Moreno
doaj   +1 more source

Los libres de todos los colores en la otra banda del río Cauca

open access: yesHistoria y Espacio, 2015
En este artículo realizamos un bosquejo de la evolución histórica de la ciudad de Tuluá, durante el período colonial. Él es resultado, de una investigación sobre la ciudad de Palmira que, con Tuluá estuvo unida en los mismos procesos administrativos que
Alonso Valencia Llano
doaj   +1 more source

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