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- catalog abstract "Three generations after the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican aristocracy maintains a remarkable awareness of itself as a social class. In The Wages of Conquest, anthropologist Hugo G. Nutini sets out to study this social institution, which has shown an unparalleled continuity in structure, form, and content since its beginning with the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The first part of the book gives an outline of Western social stratification from Greco-Roman times, through the Dark and Middle Ages, to the transition from estate to class after the French and American Revolutions. Focusing on social mobility, expression - the behaviors and practices that identify members of different groups - and various combinations of social, ruling, and political functions, Nutini demonstrates that Western aristocracies constitute a unitary system. In the second part, Nutini explores the particular case of the Mexican aristocracy, giving a detailed description of its inception, development, flowering, and decline. As he explores the transformation of Mexico throughout Colonial and Republican times he clarifies why despite its loss of political and economic power the Mexican aristocracy is still an institution to be reckoned with. This volume will interest sociologists, historians, political scientists, and anthropologists who study Latin America, where several local aristocracies have played powerful roles until recently.".
- catalog contributor b6517337.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-423) and index.".
- catalog description "Three generations after the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican aristocracy maintains a remarkable awareness of itself as a social class. In The Wages of Conquest, anthropologist Hugo G. Nutini sets out to study this social institution, which has shown an unparalleled continuity in structure, form, and content since its beginning with the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The first part of the book gives an outline of Western social stratification from Greco-Roman times, through the Dark and Middle Ages, to the transition from estate to class after the French and American Revolutions. Focusing on social mobility, expression - the behaviors and practices that identify members of different groups - and various combinations of social, ruling, and political functions, Nutini demonstrates that Western aristocracies constitute a unitary system. In the second part, Nutini explores the particular case of the Mexican aristocracy, giving a detailed description of its inception, development, flowering, and decline. As he explores the transformation of Mexico throughout Colonial and Republican times he clarifies why despite its loss of political and economic power the Mexican aristocracy is still an institution to be reckoned with. This volume will interest sociologists, historians, political scientists, and anthropologists who study Latin America, where several local aristocracies have played powerful roles until recently.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 444 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wages of conquest.".
- catalog identifier "0472104845 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wages of conquest.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Wages of conquest.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog subject "305.5/2/0972 20".
- catalog subject "Aristocracy (Social class) Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "HT653.M6 N88 1995".
- catalog title "The wages of conquest : the Mexican aristocracy in the context of Western aristocracies / Hugo G. Nutini.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".