| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Juan Javier Pescador. The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Oiartzun Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550–1800. (The Basque Series.) Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 185. $39.95.
Many studies have analyzed the effects of Spanish overseas migration on the evolving societies of Latin America during the colonial period, but few have analyzed the effects of that migration on peninsular Spain; exceptions are the important recent works by Ida Altman and Tamar Herzog, among others. This well-researched and engaging book by Juan Javier Pescador asks how overseas migration affected the social, economic, political, and religious structures of the Oiartzun river valley near Donostia (San Sebastián) in the Basque area of Guipúzcoa in the kingdom of Castile. Research into local, regional, national, and ecclesiastical archives allows the author to reconstruct individual, family, and community histories with an extraordinary level of detail from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.	1
The book analyzes the shifting relationship between individuals and families who stayed in the Oiartzun Valley and those who migrated temporarily or permanently to the New World. In the valley, life centered around the entailed farmstead or baserri, which might be worked by several related families but which was passed down to a single designated heir, either male or female. Agriculture and mining formed an important part of the economic activities of a baserri, but individuals and families might also participate in commerce in Europe and abroad.	. . .

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