Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America

Ruth Hill

Description

Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the "Guide for Blind Rovers" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Armed with primary sources including literature, maps, census data, letters, and diaries, Hill reveals a rich world of intrigue and artifice, where identity is surprisingly fluid and always in question. More importantly, Hill crafts a complex argument for reassessing our understanding of race and class distinctions at the time, with enormous implications for how we view conceptions of race and class today.

Sujets

• Latin American Studies
• Histoire
• Latin America
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 13 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826591975
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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H ierarchy, C ommerce, and F raud in Bourbon Spanish America   ’  Rut Hill

Hierarcy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanis America

Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America

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Rut Hill

Vanderbilt University Press Nasville

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his book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in te United States of America

Publication of tis book as been supported by a generous subsidy from te Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hill, Rut, – Hierarcy, commerce, and fraud in Bourbon Spanis America : a postal inspector’s expose / Rut Hill. p. cm. Includes bibliograpical references.  --- (clot : alk. paper) . Concolorcorvo, b. ca. . Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes. . Latin America—History—To . . Spain—Colonies—America—Commerce. . Oligarcy—Latin America—History—t century. . Social classes—Latin America—History—t century. . Corruption—Latin America—History—t century. . Fraud—Latin America—History—t century. I. Title. .  ’.—dc  

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contents

  Mexico City versus Lima:Pila,Puente,Pan,andPeines Defacing a Bourbon Legend:Pedro,Pardo,Paulino,andPerulero

  En Route and in te Loop: Trade, Metals, and Elites, circa – Of Gods and Men: Bourbon Blindness and te Post, circa –

  Before Race: Hierarcy in Bourbon Spanis America he Inca Impostor Unmasked: Culture, Controversy, and Concolorcorvo

Trial of te Century: Humor, Retoric, and te Law

Epilogue Notes Bibliograpy Index

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Illustrations

Map of Mexico City, 

Map of Kingdom of Guatemala, 

Front page of teGaceta de Lima,

Riddle from teGaceta de Lima,

Riddle from teGaceta de Lima.

Riddle from teGaceta de Lima,

Map of Lima, 

Map of Lima, 

Map of Lima, 

Map of Riverplate Region,  Map of Santiago, Cile,  Map of City of Quito,Kingdom of Quito, Emblems ofSameandIgnorance, Emblem ofError, Emblem ofError, Monster born in Buenos Aires,  Emblem ofSilence, Pre-Conquest Rulers of New Granada,  Pre-Conquest Rulers of New Granada,  Map of Cape of Good Hope, 

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