Lexington Books
Pages: 164
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-4071-1 • Hardback • December 2016 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
978-1-4985-4072-8 • eBook • December 2016 • $97.50 • (£75.00)
Monica L. Hardin is associate professor and department chair for history at Liberty University.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The City of Guadalajara, 1531–1821
Chapter 2: Mobility, Persistence, and Transience Compared
Chapter 3: Mobility and Transience: Product of a Special Era?
Chapter 4: Those Who Stayed: The Persisting Households
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Hardin’s new work is a highly focused study of census data from an important period in Mexican history. It is incisive and clear and will be useful to those interested in the history of kinship in the early nineteenth century and those looking at urban history in times of turmoil.
— Hispanic American Historical Review
Monica L. Hardin makes the most of nineteenth-century census data and provides an unprecedented, granular examination of household structure and urban mobility in early-nineteenth-century Guadalajara. In a compelling blend of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this study brings demographic analysis to the personal level and builds an important bridge between statistical aggregation and the complicated lives of specific individuals who show up in multiple censuses. This is a significant contribution to Latin American history in both methodology and content.
— Stephen C. Dove, Centre College
This study uses seemingly traditional historical sources to ask new and exciting questions about rural to urban migration patterns, and is an expertly-researched source for scholars and students of Latin America.
— Andrea Vicente, Hillsborough Community College
Monica L. Hardin offers in this study a fine-grained and original approach to the study of censuses in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her work illuminates the centrality of demography to understanding the intersections of family and household, mobility, and identity during a formative period of Mexican history.
— Laura M. Shelton, Franklin & Marshall College
Through her quantitative examination of individual household (both persisting and transient) data, Monica L. Hardin demonstrates that mobility was the norm for nearly all households in Guadalajara, Mexico between 1821 and 1822. Convincingly, she challenges—and often disproves—previous conclusions based upon the aggregate that supported household stability. This study is an important work that will be of value to scholars of Latin American social history.
— H. Micheal Tarver, Arkansas Tech University
This book presents a rich analysis of the Guadalajara censuses of the late colonial and early republican eras. Monica L. Hardin applies an impressive array of analytic techniques along with careful attention to social details, and the results are eye-opening. The study reveals a remarkable degree of residential mobility by people from across the spectra of social status and ethnicity. Individuals moved frequently among houses and households. Households themselves—that is, the people who made them up—moved frequently among neighborhoods. This is a surprisingly dynamic picture, with important implications for understandings of migration and family structure in Mexico and in Latin America more generally.
— Catherine Komisaruk, University of Texas at San Antonio
This study sheds light on Guadalajara´s significance to family history in nineteenth-century Mexico.
— Claudia Rivas Jiménez, University of Guadalajara