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Author Hill, Ruth, 1966-

Title Hierarchy, commerce and fraud in Bourbon Spanish America : a postal inspector's expose / Ruth Hill.

Imprint Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  946.054 H555h 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-378) and index.
Contents Mexico City versus Lima : pila, puente, pan and peines -- Defacing a Bourbon legend : Pedro, Pardo, Paulino and Perulero -- En route and in the loop : trade, metals and elites, circa 1700-1750 -- Of gods and men : Bourbon blindness and the post, circa 1750-1800 -- Before race : hierarchy in Bourbon Spanish America -- The Inca impostor unmasked : culture, controversy and Concolorcorvo -- Trial of the century : humor, rhetoric and the law.
Subject Concolorcorvo, approximately 1706- Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes.
Latin America -- History -- To 1830.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Commerce.
Oligarchy -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century.
Social classes -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century.
Corruption -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century.
Fraud -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN 0826514928 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826514929 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 273700049
YDXCP 2204426
NZ1 9193645

 
    
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