Ian Jacobs is the author of Ranchero Revolt: The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero.

"A remarkable book combining unusual ambition, meticulous research, and lucid analysis; in its pages Guerrero morphs from a marginal hinterland of 'wild Mexico' into a dynamic entity whose territory, peoples, trade, production, and culture are vividly recreated."—Alan Knight, author of Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest "A major contribution to the field. . . . Jacobs has written a deep history that foregrounds the formation of indigenous cultures and economies in Mesoamerican Guerrero over millennia and their transformation during the first century after the Spanish invasion."—Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico

Ian Jacobs is the author of Ranchero Revolt: The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero.

"A remarkable book combining unusual ambition, meticulous research, and lucid analysis; in its pages Guerrero morphs from a marginal hinterland of 'wild Mexico' into a dynamic entity whose territory, peoples, trade, production, and culture are vividly recreated."—Alan Knight, author of Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest "A major contribution to the field. . . . Jacobs has written a deep history that foregrounds the formation of indigenous cultures and economies in Mesoamerican Guerrero over millennia and their transformation during the first century after the Spanish invasion."—Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico

Ian Jacobs is the author of Ranchero Revolt: The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero.

"A remarkable book combining unusual ambition, meticulous research, and lucid analysis; in its pages Guerrero morphs from a marginal hinterland of 'wild Mexico' into a dynamic entity whose territory, peoples, trade, production, and culture are vividly recreated."—Alan Knight, author of Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest "A major contribution to the field. . . . Jacobs has written a deep history that foregrounds the formation of indigenous cultures and economies in Mesoamerican Guerrero over millennia and their transformation during the first century after the Spanish invasion."—Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico