Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th-19th Century) - Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging

This book addresses the negotiation of categorizations in colonial societies in Spanish America from a new vantage point: fiscality. In early modern empires (poll) taxes were a significant factor to organize and perpetuate social inequalities. By this, fiscal categorizations had very concrete effects on the daily life of the categorized, on their assets and on their labor force. They intersected with social categorizations such as gender, profession, age and what many authors have termed race or ethnicity, but which is denominated here, more accurately with a term from the sources, calidad. They were imposed by legislation from above and contested via petitions from below, the latter being a type of source scarcely analyzed until now.

About the author

Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Ph.D. (2011), University of Bonn, habilitation (2021) is Interim Professor in Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include (post)colonialism, social differences, racism, migration, bonded labor and belonging with a geographical focus on Spanish America and the Philippines in a global context.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Albiez-Wieck
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2022
• EAN: 9789004521636
• ISBN: 978-90-04-52163-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 788 g
• Series: European Expansion and Indigen
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)