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.