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This book examines the rich literature on the history of the fiscal and financial dynamics of the Spanish empire within the broader historical debates on rival European imperial states from 1760 to 1810. The author also focuses on Mexico's financial role in this study.

Originally published in 1985, this book is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor in Latin America and how they are articulated and satisfied. The main theme of this book is thus the allocation of resources within urban society and the operation of political and administrative power at city level.

This is a study of the birth of political life and the rise of a political leadership in the River Plate area during the struggle for independence from Spain.

The Indian nobility of the Andes occupied a crucial economic and political position in late colonial Andean society, a position widely accepted as legitimate until the Tupac Amaru rebellion. Shadows of Empire traces the history of this elite and examines the pre-conquest and colonial foundations of their privilege and authority.

Buenos Aires is Argentina's wealthiest, largest, and most populous province. This first account of its political history between 1912 and 1943 underscores its role as a vital factor in national political life.

This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia. Professor Schwartz examines this issue through little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and records. He delves into the larger structure of social and economic relations as well as a comparative perspective elsewhere in the Americas.

This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century. Business interest groups strongly affected the modernization and prosperity of agriculture, the pace of industrialisation, and patterns of communications.

This book examines the relationship between the indigenous peoples of northern Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. It addresses an important and often overlooked element in the history of Amerindian populations: their biological adaptability and resilience.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises.

Uruguay was once the most stable democracy in Latin America, but in 1973 the military seized power for the first time. Political parties did not disappear, however, even though they were made illegal. By the 1980s Uruguay's generals were anxious to find a way to withdraw from power. Yet they continued to insist on certain guarantees as the price for holding elections.

This biography of Andres Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, statesman and poet, was the first to appear in English. It provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of his life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.

As the strongest opposition party during the 1890s, the Radical Party created a system of open confrontation and political competition. This study offers not merely a revised version of the party's story but also a new perspective on the politics of the nation as a whole.

This 2000 book examines the history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil. Its ability to diversify economically as well as its growth through natural reproduction, rather than through importation via the trans-atlantic slave trade indicate the unique character of this slave community.

Much of the history of independent Mexico remains a mystery and no decade is less well understood than 1835 to 1846. Costeloe explores this period and analyses the issues and personalities involved.

Since the late nineteenth century coffee has been the mainstay of the Colombian economy, and no historian, economist, or sociologist interested in the country can escape its importance; nor can anyone interested in the commodity ignore Columbia. This is the first work on the subject to appear in English.

British slave traders were the chief suppliers of Cuba's slaves in the eighteenth century. Dr Murray's study, based on a thorough examination of British and Spanish records, reveals how important British influence was on the course of Cuban history.

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires underwent rapid economic growth. This book focuses on the economic organizations that led the growth process - the estancia. Economic growth and increased freedom were not inevitable on the pampas, but rather the consequences of human actions.

In the years 1700-60 some 3 per cent of the foreign-born in Mexico were non-Spaniards who had entered the colony illegally. This book demonstrates how such immigrants often escaped official detection and how even those known to the authorities were usually allowed to remain and make new lives for themselves.

This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market.

This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s, based on a detailed study of the mining city of Oruro in Alto Peru (present-day Bolivia), emphasizing the workings of the judicial system and role of the bureaucracy.

Both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes.

This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It serves both as introduction and as a provisionally updated synthesis of the quickly changing field.

This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the mid 1940s to the overthrow of Peron's widow in 1976. It presents an account of such crucial issues as the role of the Peronist union bureaucracy and the impact of Peronist ideology on workers.

This is an introductory survey of the history and recent development of Latin American economy and society from colonial times to the establishment of the military regime in Chile.

Professor Cook estimates population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyses the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compares this experience with that of the coastal region and the Andean highlands.

This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. It is based on extensive research in Spanish and Colombian archives, and offers the only available survey of Colombian history and historiography for this period.

Spanish colonialism exacted a high price from its subjects, promoting economic dependency as the accompaniment of a more vital economy based on a mix of industry and agriculture. This volume examines how Spanish colonial policies contributed to patterns of underdevelopment in the Kingdom of Quito (modern Ecuador) from 1690 to 1830.

This book conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacan and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and assesses their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century.

After looking briefly at the reasons for the oil fraternity's choice of Venezuela, the book examines the relationship between Gomez's government and the oil companies during this period. It deals with the government's initial encouragement, legislation, and unsuccessful attempts to increase production from the small number of companies operating before 1919.

This is a comparative study of the First World War's economic and socio-political repercussions in Latin America. It provides many important new insights into the nature and limitations of pre-war growth as well as the far-reaching significance of the changes resulting from the war.