Paper presented at the 73 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Salt Lake City, April 24-27, 1977, in special session: Population and geography of colonial Spanish America.

In considering the consequences of these nineteenth-century attitudes on twentieth-century Puerto Rico, Kinsbruner suggests that racial discrimination continues to limit opportunities for people of color.

This 1982 volume of essays attempts to promote discussion about the purpose and practice of historical geography.

Between 1765 and 1836 the household economy of São Paulo was transformed from a subsistence to a market-oriented economy. This transformation was paralleled by dramatic changes within society, existing kinship systems, and the organization of the household. The author suggests that this fundamental change in the mode of production was intentional, engineered by an interested elite of merchants and plantation owners who utilized local government bodies to promote the construction of centralized markets, roads, warehouses, and port facilities. The same group sponsored changes in local administration and land law in order to increase and control the resultant commerce in sugar and coffee. This book, based on household-level census data, looks at economic development at the micro level and analyzes how the change took place at a juncture in history when prior options seemed to disappear.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

This book, based on a study of the credit market in Nueva Galicia during 1720–1820, reveals a number of the social characteristics of colonial Mexico, including social status, the role of women, the church, ethnicity, and the complexity of the family network in economic affairs.