Hierarchy, commerce and fraud in Bourbon Spanish America
Subtitle: a postal inspector's expose
By: Ruth Hill.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Concolorcorvo, b. ca. 1706; 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; Latin America -- History -- To 1830; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Commerce
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mexico City v. Lima : pila, puente, pan and peines; title: Defacing a Bourbon legend : Pedro, Pardo, Paulino and Perulero; title: En route and in the loop : trade, metals and elites, c. 1700-1750; title: Of gods and men : Bourbon blindness and the post, c. 1750-1800; title: Before race : hierarchy in Bourbon Spanish America; title: The Inca impostor unmasked : culture, controversy and Concolorcorvo; title: Trial of the century : humor, rhetoric and the law.