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Keith, Robert Gordon was born on November 18, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Gordon and Margaret Soutter (Woods) Keith.
( The colonial society and economy of Latin America were...)
The colonial society and economy of Latin America were based on local communities of three principal types: Spanish towns, Indian villages, and landed estates or haciendas. Of these, it was the latter that provided the economic foundations for the aristocratic social system. This book tells how and why the Spaniards who settled the Peruvian coastal valleys originally came to establish their estates. Some of the questions it attempts to answer are: Why did the hacienda system arise in the second half of the sixteenth century? Was it primarily a product of Spanish history and culture? Was it an inevitable result of the conquest? What did it owe to Indian customs and traditions? To local geography? To economic and social conditions? Concentrating on seven major valleys of the central coast, the author investigates varying local conditions and circumstances as they appear in wills, bills of sale, contracts, and other notarial documents. The story begins with the indigenous coastal societies before the conquest and concludes with the consolidation of the hacienda system in the early seventeenth century.
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Keith, Robert Gordon was born on November 18, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Gordon and Margaret Soutter (Woods) Keith.
Bachelor, Amherst College, 1962. Master of Arts in History, Harvard University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy of History, Harvard University, 1970.
Master of Business Administration in Public Mgmt, Boston University, 1987.
Asst professor history Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, 1969—1973. Lecturer history (part time) Boston University, 1975—1978. Mellon faculty fellow history Harvard University, Cambridge, 1978—1979, research assoc, Ctr for Latin American, 1979—1982.
Project manager, senior planner divsn capital planning & operations State of Massachusetts, Boston, 1983—1988, manager policy planning & research division capital planning & operations, 1988—1993. Consultant Yarmouth, Maine, 1992—1994. System development specialist Muskie School Public Service University Southern Maine, Portland, 1994—1998, manager data, research analyst Muskie School Public Service, since 1998.
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President Neighborhood Development Corporation of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1979—1984.
Married Anne Howard Brown, June 7, 1964. Children: Rebecca Keith Matusovich, Robert Ubardo.