AN APPROACH TO THE HISTORICAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF MICHOACAN

The following pages try to show systematized by a geographer an apprentice in economics and history some of the territorial specificities in which the historical-economic geography of the Tarasco State was probably shaped during the last stage of the pre-Hispanic period called Late Postclassical or militaristic (1200-1521 AD). C.); marked by the rivalry between Tarascans and Mexicas (López Austin 1981; Solanes and Vela 2000:39); in whose context the importance of the wars of expansion of the Tarascan State over peoples of diverse cultures stands out (Quezada 1972; Herrejón 1978; Reyes Garza 1995).In order to approach the study of the late pre-Hispanic economic geography of Mechuacan we have recourse to several hybrid social sciences: economic history environmental history human geography geodemography historical demography cultural ecology political economy ethnohistory political anthropology and ethnoarchaeology.The knowledge that addresses and interprets these sciences is intimately interconnected because the social processes that they analyze are mutually explanatory since they are simultaneous historical constructions.