Corruption in the Iberian Empires
Subtitle: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780826358257
Subjects: Police corruption; Spain, colonies; Portugal, colonies
Description: "This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits, jail them, or, sometimes, have them 'garroted and their corpses publicly displayed'"--Provided by publisher.