Viceregal Persistence versus Indian Mobility
The Impact of the Duque de la Palata's Reform Program on Alto Perú, 1681-1692
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2744899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey A Cole (0000-0002-3485-6056, Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-56 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0023879100015740 |
| OpenAlex | W4312533599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Charles II named the Duque de la Palata as viceroy of Perú in 1680 with the hope that he would be able to revitalize the production of royal revenue in the realm. The key to accomplishing that goal, the king believed, was to assign more Indians to the mines and silver mills of Potosí because the crown ostensibly received 20 percent of the silver marked in the Villa Imperial. One-seventh of the adult population of male originarios (Indians living in their assigned pueblos) in the obligated provinces could be assigned to Potosí in any one year under Francisco de Toledo's ordinances, and the Duque was authorized to extend this mita obligation to any or all of the fourteen previously exempted altiplano (highland) corregimientos, that is, to increase the base from which the one-seventh ratio was taken. The number of new corregimientos to be added would depend upon the results of a prerequisite census in the thirty corregimientos of Alto Perú (sixteen mita and fourteen exempted
Census · Economic history · Obligation · Persistence (discontinuity) · Political science · Population · Realm · Sociology · Demography · Engineering · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Law
Country-Region Index
Entre el trabajo libre y forzado
La creación —fallida— de un mundo fiscal. Charcas (actual Bolivia) 1683–1689
El corregidor de indios, la corrupcion y el estado virreinal en Peru (1580–1630)
Envejecimiento y migracion en una comunidad andina
Migración y tributación en los Andes
Place making and place breaking
Terres et déserts, société et sauvagerie
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |