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Lords of the Land presents the only study in English of the large, landed estates in colonial Peru. It focuses on the function of the estates and their linkages with the rest of Spanish America. Based almost exclusively on documents from archives in Rome, Madrid, and Lima (most hitherto unused), the book guides the reader through the agricultural cycles of Peru's great ecclesiastical estates and explains how they first developed, functioned, and distributed their products. Colonial labor forms, finance, and early trade networks are carefully detailed. Painstakingly researched and gracefully articulated, this book fills a major gap in the economic and agricultural history of colonial Latin America.

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• Preface
• Introduction
• I The Setting: Physical and Social
• Desert and Valleys
• The Spaniards
• Man-Land Relationship
• Spanish Acquisition of Land
• Indian Population Decline
• Social Change
• II Land Acquisition
• Early Postconquest Acquisitions
• Jesuit Acquisitions
• Sugar Haciendas
• Process of Acquisition Vineyards
• Land Values Censos
• Land Patterns and Litigation
• Colonial Context of Land Acquisitions
• III The Operation of Haciendas
• Agricultural Systens
• Farm Systems
• Physical Layout
• Cultivation and Processing of Sugar
• Vineyards and Winemaking Livestock Equipment, Tools, and Sipplies
• Farm Enterprises Management
• Farm Structures and Society
• IV Labor: Salaried and Slave
• Mitayos and Yanaconas
• Salaried Labor
• Labor in Tucuman
• Slaves in Tucuman
• Slave Labor in Peru
• Mortality and Reproduction
• Rural Society
• V Production and Profit
• Record Keeping Investment, Expenses, and Return on Suagr Haciendas
• Wine Production and Profit
• Distribution and Markets
• Agrarian Capitalism
• VI Finances: Colleges and Haciendas
• Early Jesuits and Finance
• Financing Colleges and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis
• Financial History of San Pablo
• Incomes and Expenses of Other Colleges
• Financial Recovery
• VII The Trade Network
• Peru and Tucuman
• The Yerba Trade
• The Livestock Trade
• Cordoba and the Colleges
• The Business Offices
• The Obrajes of Quito
• The Jesuits and Colonial Trade
• Criticism of the Jesuits
• VIII Summary and Conclusion
• Essay on Sources
• Glossary of Spanish Terms
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Nicholas P. Cushner is an Associate Professor at Empire State College, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from University College, University of London. He is the author of Landed Estates in Colonial Philippines (New Haven, 1976). Last year he received the SUNY/ESC Foundation Award for Outstanding Scholarship.