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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Ruth, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Concolorcorvo, > approximately 1706-. > Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes.
Spain > Colonies > America > Commerce.
Latin America > History > To 1830.
Fraud > Latin America > History > 18th century.
Corruption > Latin America > History > 18th century.
Social classes > Latin America > History > 18th century.
Oligarchy > Latin America > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.