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dc.contributor.advisorWorcester, Donald E.
dc.contributor.authorInglis, G. Douglasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T15:10:55Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T15:10:55Z
dc.date.created1979en_US
dc.date.issued1979en_US
dc.identifieraleph-254866en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/33575
dc.description.abstractBefore proceeding to an analysis of the structure and distribution of Cuba's colonial population, one must rectify a major weakness prevalent among the traditional employment of the island's early demographic data. Foremost among those weaknesses has been the evolution of a "Tower of Authority"--a reliance by one author upon the facts and figures of an earlier writer who in turn had relied upon an even earlier author. This dependence upon secondary sources in a chain of misprinted or miscopied figures and the attendant "correcting of addition" which many authorities felt compelled to perform has led to a confusing array of dates and totals. No attempt had been made to examine the original documents. While much time and effort has been expended in resolving such questions, they remain nonetheless but an introductory facet to the island's demographic development. Cuba, like all areas of the Spanish empire, experienced two distinct eras of documentation which unfortunately are not directly comparable. From 1492 through the fall of Havana in 1762, Cuban officials operated in the "pre-statistical" era, a time of imprecise vecino counts (vecinos = male heads of households with a minimum of property). The arrival of a new generation of administrators after England returned Havana in 1763 heralded a new trend in the collection of statistics. A greater concern for detail appeared which reached its early apogee with the first Padron General (major area census) of Cuba undertaken by Felipe de Fondesviela y Oneano, Marques de la Torre in 1774. The Marques' excellent census was shortly followed by the even more elaborate efforts of his successor as Captain General of Cuba, Diego Jose Navarro Garcia de Valladares. Though a number of desirable demographic measures such as rates of births, deaths, marriages, and migrations can not be established, a number of detailed characteristics or the morphology of the group (island) and sub-groups (districts and minor jurisdictions) are obtainable. The general geographical breakdown of the two censuses allow for numerous distributional comparisons between the two, while the more exact municipalities of the 1778 count permits even more detailed study. Within general confines questions of racial composition, sex ratios, family structure, and urban-rural relations are raised. Within the limits of the data and the shortcomings of the institutions which spawned them, a detailed picture of Cuba in the 1770s--an island colony on the threshold of a monocultural revolution--is offered.
dc.format.extentvi, 206 leaves, bound : illustrations, mapsen_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Printen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAS38.I6en_US
dc.subject.lcshCuba--History--To 1810en_US
dc.titleHistorical demography of colonial Cuba, 1492-1780en_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of History
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentHistory
local.academicunitDepartment of History
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaHistory
dc.identifier.callnumberMain Stacks: AS38 .I6 (Regular Loan)
dc.identifier.callnumberSpecial Collections: AS38 .I6 (Non-Circulating)
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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