American Metropolis
The Making of Mexico City
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-69277-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-69277-9 (ISBN)
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This book sheds light on the experiences of workers in Mexico City, the first colonial metropolis in seventeenth century America. Accessibly written and deeply researched, it is for educated readers, students, and scholars interested in American history, urban history, global history, and Latin American studies.
Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In this deeply researched book, Tatiana Seijas reveals a rich tapestry of stories about essential workers who remade and transformed the city during this period. Her narrative style carries readers to a unique place and time with residents from around the world who sold food, facilitated transportation, provided care, and valued the city's silver. Free and enslaved people from Africa and Asia, immigrants, and Native Americans pursued opportunities in a wealthy, yet deeply unequal environment, where working people claimed parts of the city for themselves. They carved out spaces to create new businesses and protect their livelihoods, altering the cityscape itself in the process. American Metropolis brings Mexico City to life from the perspective of the working people who transformed this early modern metropolis.
Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In this deeply researched book, Tatiana Seijas reveals a rich tapestry of stories about essential workers who remade and transformed the city during this period. Her narrative style carries readers to a unique place and time with residents from around the world who sold food, facilitated transportation, provided care, and valued the city's silver. Free and enslaved people from Africa and Asia, immigrants, and Native Americans pursued opportunities in a wealthy, yet deeply unequal environment, where working people claimed parts of the city for themselves. They carved out spaces to create new businesses and protect their livelihoods, altering the cityscape itself in the process. American Metropolis brings Mexico City to life from the perspective of the working people who transformed this early modern metropolis.
Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians (2014) and co-editor of As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (2020).
Contents; Acknowledgments; List of figures; Introduction; 1. Feeding the city; 2. Transporting the city; 3. Caring for the city; 4. Valuing the city; Conclusion; Essay on sources; Note on orthography and measures; List of archives, libraries, and repositories consulted; Works cited; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-69277-1 / 1009692771 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-69277-9 / 9781009692779 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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