The Pulque Trade of Late Colonial Mexico City

1980 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Kicza
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Long Distance

Over the course of the colonial period the Spanish in Mexico, whether Creole or peninsular, not only created an economic and marketing structure based on their own practices and preferences but also penetrated and even came to dominate the marketing of certain Indian commodities, when these products were exchanged in a cash rather than a barter system and when involvement in the marketing appeared sufficiently lucrative. Cacao was probably the first item in the indegenous market economy whose distribution was taken over by Spaniards. Cacao had been a long-distance import item of high specific value even in the pre-Conquest world and the victorious Spanish quickly replaced the disappearing pochteca class of merchants which had controlled its distribution.

Les relations franco-kényanes dans les courses de fond : Un processus postcolonial singulier (1960–2019)

STADION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-225
Author(s):  
Cyril Thomas ◽  
Pascal Charroin ◽  
Bastien Soule
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Interdependent Relationships

At the Mexico City Olympics, Kenya won eight medals in athletics. This performance enabled this State, whose independence dated back just four years, to display its identity to the eyes of the world. Kenyan athletics, mainly in middle- and long-distance events, continued to assert itself until it dominated the medal ranking in the 2015 World Championships. However, even if it is a vehicle for emancipation and identity-building, Kenyan athletics is also dependent on external influences. Therefore, even though France and Kenya never had colonial links, they have built interdependent relationships in athletics during the post-colonial era. The purpose of this study is to understand the particular postcolonial process around which these relationships were built, in the absence of colonial ties. We have chosen to conduct this study based on the investigation of minutes of the French Athletics Federation (FFA) committees and the journal L’Athlétisme, the official FFA review. We conducted semi-structured interviews with Kenyan and French athletics actors (athletes, managers, race organizers, and federal officials). These data reveal a continuing domination of Kenya, by France, in athletics. This relationship of domination marks a survival of the colonial order. However, Kenyan athletes’ domination, especially in marathons, contributes to the vulnerability of French performances. The singularity of the postcolonial process studied lies as much in the absence of colonial ties between France and Kenya as in the transformation of a relationship of domination specific to the colonial period.

Afro-Mexican Slave Labor in the Obrajes de Paños of New Spain, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank T. Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Textile Mill ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Woolen Textile

On April 5, 1723, Juan Joseph de Porras, a mulatto slave laboring in an obraje de paños (woolen textile mill) near Mexico City, appeared before the Holy Office of the Inquisition for blasphemy. According to the testimony of six slaves, including Porras’ wife, while his co-workers prepared to bed down for the night in the obraje Porras had blasphemed over a beating he had received from the mayordomo (overseer) earlier in the day. Señor Pedregal, the owner of the obraje, testified that Porras was one of nearly thirty workers, all Afro-Mexican slaves or convicts, who lived and labored in his obraje without the freedom to leave.The case against Juan Joseph de Porras and dozens of others like it in the Mexican archives raise important questions, not only about the makeup of the colonial obraje labor force, but also about the importance of Afro-Mexican slavery in the middle of the colonial period. Was the Pedregal labor force, composed entirely of slaves and convicts, the exception or the rule within obrajes of New Spain? If it was not exceptional, how important were slaves to that obraje and others like it? What exactly was the demographic makeup of the obraje labor force in the middle of the colonial period? And, how might the answers to those questions change our understanding of the histories of labor and slavery in colonial Mexico?

scholarly journals Life Patterns and Social Differentiation in Late Colonial México City

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (011) ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Kicza
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Centers

Mexico City, in the fifty years between 1770 and 1820 was far and away the largest urban entity in the Americas, with a population ranging between about 80000 and 120000 peop1e in this period. As a center of both production and consumption and the headquarters of the numerous agencies in the political and religious hierarchies, the capital had a major impact on the social organization and economic activities of rural areas and regional centers throughout the colony of New Spain. In its capacity as a mercantile entrepôt of the most prosperous colony in the Spanish empire at this time, Mexico City's reach extended across half the globe, with its merchants directing operations and interchanges from at least Manila -and by extension China- to Spain -and by extension England.

Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also explains why agents of the Grillo and Lomelín slaving monopoly (asiento) failed to replicate the success of their Lusophone predecessors in Nueva Veracruz, Mexico City and Puebla de los Ángeles in the 1660s and 1670s.

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