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The book's author was requested by Financiera Aceptaciones S.A. (a finance company from Mexico's Banco Serfin), to publish this work for the Mexican public due to the interest of the Mexican Academic circles, it was inspired by his own thesis "Haciendas de Jalisco y aledaños: fincas rústicas de antaño, 1506–1821", a 270 pages work that was made to obtain a Master of Arts degree in Latin ...
Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, MA BE KHS (9 February 1905 – 20 January 1983 [1]) was a Mexican historian and scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the haciendas of the State of Jalisco in the twentieth century. [2]
The haciendas in the Valley of Ameca comprise a series of expansive land estates awarded to Spanish soldiers for their services in the military during the conquest of New Spain in the late 1500s. [1] Although a great portion of these estates were built during the colonial period (1701–1821), some of them were inclusively built during the ...
Hacienda San José de Miravalle is a former mezcal-producing hacienda [1] and currently a rural inactive community of the municipality of San Martín de Hidalgo in central Jalisco, Mexico. [2] During the early twentieth-century, the hacienda was known for its productivity of mezcal business until the Mexican agrarian reform and other uprisings ...
Encarnación de Díaz is a town and municipality located in the far northeast of the state of Jalisco in north-central Mexico.It is located in a natural pass that connects the Los Altos region of Jalisco to points north, and from pre-Hispanic times until the 20th century, it was a major thoroughfare for north-south travel.
A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico. [1]A hacienda (UK: / ˌ h æ s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HASS-ee-EN-də or US: / ˌ h ɑː s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HAH-see-EN-də; Spanish: or ) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.
Degollado (Spanish: [deɣoˈʝaðo]) is a small town and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco, in the cultural region of Ciénega, just south of Los Altos.The town is mainly rural in nature, but the municipality encompasses several concentrated residential areas, such as Huascato, Los Ranchitos, La Vibora, Buenos Aires, Las Limas, Altamira, La Chancla and El Corral de Piedra.