Description: A historical and theoretical analysis of the formation of colonial society in the Cochabamba Valleys of Bolivia. A new final chapter reexamines the findings of the original study and situates this regional history in the political/historiographical persp
Review Quotes: "Larson's work is a major study in the Latin American field . . . magnificent and original. . . . 'Must' reading for all agrarian and social historians of Latin America."--Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin