Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue : making global history in the Spanish Empire -- Introduction : a new world: the Bajío, Spanish North America, and global capitalism -- Founding the Bajío: Otomí expansion, Chichimeca war, and commercial Querétaro, 1500-1660 -- Forging Spanish North America : northward expansion, mining amalgamations, and patriarchal communities, 1590-1700 -- New world revivals : silver boom, city lives, awakenings, and northward drives, 1680-1760 -- Reforms, riots, and repressions : the Bajío in the crisis of the 1760s -- Capitalist, priest, and patriarch: Don José Sánchez Espinosa and the great family enterprises of Mexico City, 1780-1810 -- Production, patriarchy, and polarization in the cities: Guanajuato, San Miguel, and Querétaro, 1770-1810 -- The challenge of capitalism in rural communities: production, ethnicity, and patriarchy from La Griega to Puerto de Nieto, 1780-1810 -- Enlightened reformers and popular religion: polarizations and mediations, 1770-1810 -- Conclusion: the Bajío and North America in the Atlantic crucible.…”