“Brockington’s treatment of the livestock industry in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its relationship to broader colonial Mexican economy in the same era is the most effective contributory study we have on the subject. It ranks with the broader gauge Dusenberry and Chevalier in importance.”—G. Michael Riley

“This work presents new case material on the colonial Mexican hacienda, an important topic of interest to many historians and other social scientists. The date are interesting, the presentation is well done and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec certainly needs attention from historians. Brockington provides valuable insights into hacienda administration and labor relations in the early colonial period, and fleshes out, for the first time, the Tehuantepec portion of the important Marquesado del Valle jurisdiction.”—John K. Chance