Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America

A Postal Inspector's Expose
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0152-3
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Part I
- 1 Mexico City versus Lima: Pila, Puente, Pan, and Peines 41
- 2 Defacing a Bourbon Legend: Pedro, Pardo, Paulino, and Perulero 71
- Part II
- 3 En Route and in the Loop:

- Trade, Metals, and Elites, circa 1700-1750 107
- 4 Of Gods and Men:

- Bourbon Blindness and the Post, circa 1750-1800 141
- Part III
- 5 Before Race: Hierarchy in Bourbon Spanish America 197
- 6 The Inca Impostor Unmasked:

- Culture, Controversy, and Concolorcorvo 239
- 7 Trial of the Century: Humor, Rhetoric, and the Law 274
- Epilogue 305
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 355
- Index 379

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Hill is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy (c. 1680-1740) (Liverpool, 2000) as well as numerous articles. Ruth Hill is a professor of Spanish and Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.