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

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

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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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