Bureaucracy and Business in the Spanish Empire, 1759-1804
Failure of a Bourbon Beform in Mexico and Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2836622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley J Stein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-28 |
| Publication date | 1981-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-61.1.2 |
| OpenAlex | W2313951221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
S INCE publication of Herbert I. Priestley's pioneer study of Jose de Galvez, analyses of Spaniards' efforts in the eighteenth century to or modernize colonial administration, finance, trade policy, and military posture testify to the conceptual boldness of the reformers. Some, relying heavily on legislation and the literature of eulogy, have perceived the outcome in a rosy light. Others have noted the resourcefulness and power of resistance to reform, and concluded that failure crowned the reformers' work. Rarely, until recently, have the recurrent surges of Bourbon reform been examined at the grass-roots level. And yet it is precisely here that the origin and implications of change and of opposition to change can be most clearly discerned. This article, in correlating some old and new studies, printed and archival resources, presents one aspect of the Bourbon intendancy system in America, the reform of the local administrative unit known as corregimiento in Peru and alcaldia mayor in New Spain. It focuses particularly on the attempt to curtail collusion between bureaucrat and mer
Bureaucracy · Collusion · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Law · Public Administration
Estado, sociedad y política en el Perú y México entre fines de la colonia y comienzos de la República
Spanish American Independence
Colonial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade
The Enlightenment in Spain
Confronting a Mercantile Elite
The mid-eighteenth-century Bourbon reform of repartos de mercancías to the Indian population in Peru and New Spain. Monopoly or government policy
The State, Society, and Politics in Peru and Mexico in the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods
Misunderstood Love’
Coerced or Voluntary? TheRepartimientoand Market Participation of Peasants in Late Colonial Oaxaca
Colonial Economic Improvement
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2024 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |