Author: Taylor, William B.
Title: Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1979. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, (8), 242 pp, Some light soil to dustwrapper.. Textual maps & tables. Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Colonial Setting: Social Organization Before the Conquest; Early Colonial Developments; The Peasant Village in the 18th Century; Drinking: Pre-Hispanic Drinking; Early Colonial Users of Alcohol; Drinking in the Late Colonial Period; Some Conclusions, Comparisons, & Imponderables; Homicide: The Homicide Setting; The Homicide Act; The Offender-Victim Relationship; Criminal Testimony & the Question of Motivation; Sentencing; Rebellion: Peasants in Revolt; General Characteristics; Apparent Causes & Results; Conclusion: Peasant Villages; The Colonial Order; Appendixes: Peasant Uprisings 1680-1810; Incidence of Crime with Special Reference to Homicide.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Colonial Mexico, Latin America Law, Spanish Colonialism, Alcohol Drinking, Criminology Legal, Homicide Penology, Peasant Uprisings, Social Anthropology