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Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose

Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose

Hill, Ruth

Hardcover

General Latin American HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0826514928
ISBN13: 9780826514929
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jan 13 2006
Pages: 408
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.25 Width: 7.48 Depth: 10.26
Language: English
Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the Guide for Blind Rovers by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Armed with primary sources including literature, maps, census data, letters, and diaries, Hill reveals a rich world of intrigue and artifice, where identity is surprisingly fluid and always in question. More importantly, Hill crafts a complex argument for reassessing our understanding of race and class distinctions at the time, with enormous implications for how we view conceptions of race and class today.

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