San Antonio College Library

"The Hacienda in Mexico is the first detailed architectural study of rural communities. In this illustrated book, Daniel Nierman and Ernesto Vallejo present color and black-and-white photographs, site plans, building plans, and elevations to document all aspects of the hacienda - the compound, big house, chapel, spaces for production, materials and construction methods, and architectural details. In the accompanying text, they discuss each of these...

What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In Remembering the Hacienda, Vincent Přez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States.