The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 - Hardcover

by Caterina Pizzigoni (Author)

This work of social and cultural history paints a comprehensive picture of indigenous society from the point of view of households throughout a large region of central Mexico, from the middle of the seventeenth century up through the end of the eighteenth century.

Author Biography

Caterina Pizzigoni is Associate Professor in the department of History at Columbia University. She has published Testaments of Toluca (Stanford University Press, 2007), and articles in Ethnohistory and the Colonial Latin American Review, as well as in various anthologies.