Colombia Before Independence - Economy, Society, and Politics Under Bourbon Rule

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Foundations; Part I. Economy and Society In Eighteenth-Century New Granada: 2. Regions and resources; 3. Mining frontiers and the gold economy; Part II. The Economics of Bourbon Colonialism: New Granada and Atlantic Economy: 4. New Granada and the Spanish mercantile system, 1700-78; 5. Commerce and economy in the age of imperial free trade, 1778-96; 6. Merchants and monopoly; Part III. The Politics of Bourbon Colonialism: Reconstructing the Colonial State: 7. Renovation: the establishment of the Viceroyalty; 8. Innovation: the Visita General and its impact; Part IV. Government and Politics: 9. Power, politics, and protest; 10. Science and sedition; Part V. Crisis in the Colonial Order: 11. War and the weakening of the colonial order; 12. The fall of royal government; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Mcfarlane, Anthony (University of Warwick) Mcfarlane
• Assisted by: Alan Knight (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521894494
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89449-4
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous