Rethinking negotiation and coercion in an imperial state

HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-218

  Marichal, Carlos ^a  

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EID: 67649510119     PISSN: 00182168     EISSN: 15271900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2007-118     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. See Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Fragmentos de monarquía: Trabajos de historia política (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1992)
2. and Antonio Feros, "Clientelismo y poder monárquico en la Espan̄a de los siglos XVI y XVII," Relaciones (El Colegio de Michoacán) 73 (Winter 1998): 15-50, which provides an excellent bibliographical overview of this literature
3. For a detailed overview, see Richard Bonney, "What's New about the New French Fiscal History," Journal of Modern History 70, no. 3 (September 1998): 639-67
4. For details on tax revolts and repression in Mexico in the 1760s, see Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, Nueva ley y nuevo rey: Reformas borbónicas y rebelión popular en Nueva Espan̄a (Zamora, Mich.: El Colegio de Michoacán, 1996)
5. The resentment was directed at the mita, the traditional form of forced labor recruitment imposed by the Spanish regime in the Andes, against hikes in the rates of alcabalas, aguardiente (alcoholic beverages), and tobacco, and included opposition to reforms of the repartimiento system of trade. Details on the many rebellions of the eighteenth century can be found in Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Un siglo de rebeliones anticoloniales: Perú y Bolivia, 1700-1783 (Cuzco, Peru: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos "Bartolomé de Las Casas," 1988)
6. Luis A. Jáuregui, La real hacienda de Nueva España: Su administración en la época de los intendentes, 1786-1821 (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Economía, 1999)
7. and Linda Arnold, Burocracia y burócratas en México, 1742-1835 (Linda Arnold, Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats in Mexico City, 1742-1835 [Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, c. 1988]) provide the essential analysis and description of the Bourbon fiscal bureaucracy
8. John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783 (New York: Knopf, 1989), particularly chap. 3
9. Scores of historians who have worked in the archives of Bourbon Mexico and Spain attest to the high quality and detail of the colonial fiscal accounts. For detailed observations, see the introduction to John J. TePaske and Herbert S. Klein, The Royal Treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1982-)
10. Richard Bonney, ed., Economic Systems and State Finance (New York: Oxford Univ. Press / European Science Foundation, 1995)
11. See Carlos Marichal, Bancarrota del virreinato: Nueva España y las finanzas del imperio español, 1780-1810 (Mexico: El Colegio de México / Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999), chap. 2, on the colonial fiscal constitution
12. Carlos Marichal and Matilde Souto, "Silver and Situados: New Spain and the Financing of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century," Hispanic American Historical Review 74, no. 4 (November 1994): 587-614