{"product_id":"pueblos-within-pueblos-benjamin-johnson-9781646420148","title":"Pueblos within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, \u003ci\u003ePueblos within Pueblos\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the \"pueblos\" of mid-colonial New Spain. Even before the rise of the Aztecs, commoners in pre-Hispanic central Mexico set the groundwork for a new style of imperial expansion. Breaking free of earlier centralizing patterns of settlement, they spread out across onetime hinterlands and founded new and surprisingly autonomous local communities called, almost interchangeably, \u003ci\u003etlaxilacalli\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003ecalpolli\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTlaxilacalli were commoner-administered communities that coevolved with the Acolhua empire and structured its articulation and basic functioning. They later formed the administrative backbone of both the Aztec and Spanish empires in northern Mesoamerica and often grew into full and functioning existence before their affiliated altepetl, or sovereign local polities. Tlaxilacalli resembled other central Mexican communities but expressed a local Acolhua administrative culture in their exacting patterns of hierarchy. As semiautonomous units, they could rearrange according to geopolitical shifts and even catalyze changes, as during the rapid additive growth of both the Aztec Triple Alliance and Hispanic New Spain. They were more successful than almost any other central Mexican institution in metabolizing external disruptions (new gods, new economies, demographic emergencies), and they fostered a surprising level of local allegiance, despite their structural inequality. Indeed, by 1692 they were declaring their local administrative independence from the once-sovereign altepetl. Administration through community, and community through administration-this was the primal two-step of the long-lived Acolhua tlaxilacalli, at once colonial and colonialist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePueblos within Pueblos\u003c\/i\u003e examines a woefully neglected aspect of pre-Hispanic and early colonial Mexican historiography and is the first book to fully demonstrate the structuring role tlaxilacalli played in regional and imperial politics in central Mexico. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American ethnohistory, history, and anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646420144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646420148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Benjamin Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519088996607,"sku":"9781646420148","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66d74b8a-3bad-4ee0-988d-c6a4cc3463d9.jpg?v=1778736789","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pueblos-within-pueblos-benjamin-johnson-9781646420148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}