Essays in the political, economic, and social history of colonial Latin America
By: edited by Karen Spalding
Series: Occasional papers and monographs / University of Delaware, Latin American Studies Program -- no. 3; Occasional papers and monographs (University of Delaware. Latin American Studies Program) -- no. 3
Publisher: Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Newark, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: History; Congresses; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Notes: Includes essays presented at a conference entitled The state in colonial Latin America, held at the University of Delaware in May 1979.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Colonial Brazil: the role of the state in a slave social formation / Stuart B. Schwartz; title: The limits of colonial absolutism: the state in eighteenth century Mexico / John N. Coatsworth; title: The primitive nation, state, delegations of functions, and results : some examples from early colonial Central America / Murdo J. MacLeod; title: The fiscal structure of Upper Peru and the financing of empire / John J. TePaske; title: The state and the labor market in rural Bolivia in the colonial and early republican periods / Herbert S. Klein; title: Local governments and ethnic governments in Oaxaca / Marcello Carmagnani; title: The concept of nobility in colonial Santa Fe de Bogotá / Juan A. and Judith E. Villamarin.