Los nobles ante la muerte en Mexico: Actitudes, ceremonias y memorias (1750-1850) (review)
tions with external spheres played a strong role in its economic development as it entered the nineteenth century, and it is therefore important to reach beyond the region’s boundaries in assessing its economic situation. The discussion is supported by more than one hundred tables of data and a number of maps, some of which are nearly impossible to interpret. As Ruggiero Romano points out in the preface, readers may doubt the wisdom of applying modern statistical and accounting methods to this particular set of historical data. Indeed, on some important points Ibarra disagrees with Eric Van Young, Ramón María Serrera Contreras, and other highly respected historians. However, he gives the regional historical specialist food for thought and a creative methodology that should provoke future discussion of scale of analysis, quantitative techniques, and the use of historical data.