Puebla Tlaxcala Mexico

A comprehensive economic review of the Puebla-Tlaxcala region of Mexico. The review examines the region's challenges and assets and makes a series of policy recommendations.

Indigenous breadsellers riot over a Spanish monopoly scheme; Spanish authorities plan to remove native people from the city; indigenous people struggle to construct a splendid church; the city's inhabitants fight over elections and witness hangings, epidemics, and eclipses. All this and more a Native American writer of Puebla, Mexico, reported in the late seventeenth century in a set of annals in his own language, Nahuatl, telling his people's local history from the coming of the Christian faith down to his own day. These records were part of a corpus of such annals produced in the Tlaxcala-Puebla region during this period. These writings by native peoples for their own posterity provide the most direct access to the indigenous perspective on the postconquest centuries that we are ever going to find. Here in This Year for the first time brings two sets of Nahuatl annals—the other one being from a more provincial locale—to the English-speaking world, presenting the original Nahuatl with facing, very readable translations.

The story of a female landowner during the Mexican Revolution and her relations with local peasants.

Bound collection of documents regarding the sale of lands owned by indigenous peoples in Tlaxcala and Puebla, Mexico. Many sales involve the transfer of communal lands of indigenous towns to the Spanish. In many instances, the collection documents the cultural practices that indigenous Mexican people engaged in when buying and selling property. The first volume traces the ownership of the hacienda of San Juan Mixco in Tlaxcala from 1719 to 1823 and includes documents concerning an attempt by two caciques, or indigenous leaders, from Ocotelulco to recover land from the hacienda and disputes between the Spanish family who owned the hacienda and Indians in the neaby town of Santa Apolonia over the rights to an aqueduct. This volume concludes with a suit brought against the hacienda's owner in the 1820s by the Indians of San Damián, who were attempting to claim some of the hacienda's land after the owner had fallen into debt. Included is a richly illustrated manuscript map (53 x 74 cm) of the hacienda of San Juan Mixco and the surrounding towns comissioned by the Indians of San Damián and drawn by Antonio de Santa María Incháurregui, architect of Puebla, in 1809 ("Plano corografico que demuéstra la figura que forman las tierras comprehende la hazienda nombrada San Juan Mixco, en jurisdiccion y doctrina del pueblo de Santa Maria Nativitas"). The second volume documents sales of indigenous lands in Tlaxcala during the 17th century, including lands that would eventually become San Juan Mixco. Included are several indigenous manuscript maps of lands sold, some of which feature pre-conquest-style glyphs of feet, and several receipts. It ends with a 1699 decree signed by Viceroy José Sarmiento y Valladares, Count of Moctezuma. The third volume, laid in contemporary vellum wrappers, includes documents primarily from San Felipe in Puebla, as well as Atlixco, Puebla and San Lucas Tlacochcalco and Santa Cruz, Tlaxcala. The Santa Cruz documents also include a manuscript property map.