Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America : A Postal Inspector's Expose PDF
by Ruth Hill
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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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- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication Date:13/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780826591975
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication Date:13/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780826591975