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Title Corruption in the Iberian empires : greed, custom, and colonial networks / edited by Christoph Rosenmüller
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)
Contents Introduction: Corruption, Abuse, and Justice in the Iberian Empires / Christoph Rosenmüller -- Forgery and Tambos : False Documents, Imagined Incas, and the Making of Andean Space / Jeremy Ravi Mumford -- From Corrupt to Criminal : Reflections on the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649 / Kris Lane -- Clients, Patrons, and Tribute : The Aguilar Family in Mexico, Tenochtitlan, 1644-1689 / William F. Connell -- Portraits of Bad Officials : Malfeasance in Visita Sentences from Seventeenth-Century Santo Domingo / Marc Eagle -- "The Execrable Offense of Fraud or Bribery" : Corrupt Judges and Common People in the Visita of Imperial Mexico (1715-1727) / Christoph Rosenmüller -- "Our Delivery Consists in Appointing Good Ministers" : Corruption and the Dilemmas of Appointing Officials in Early Eighteenth-Century Spain / Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso -- Custom, Corruption, and Reform in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico : Puebla's Merchant Priests versus the Reformist Bureaucrat / Frances Ramos -- Merchant-Bureaucrats, Unwritten Contracts, and Fraud in the Manila Galleon Trade / Catherine Tracy Goode -- Addicted to Smuggling : Contraband Trade in Eighteenth-Century Brazil and Rio de la Plata / Fabrício Prado
Summary "This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits, jail them, or, sometimes, have them 'garroted and their corpses publicly displayed'"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2017)
SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Political corruption -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Political corruption -- Portugal -- Colonies -- History
Corruption -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Corruption -- Portugal -- Colonies -- History
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Commerce
Colonies -- Administration
Portuguese colonies
Spanish colonies
Kolonie
Korruption
SUBJECT Spain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History
Portugal -- Colonies -- Administration -- History
Spain -- Colonies -- Commerce -- History
Portugal -- Colonies -- Commerce -- History
Latin America -- History -- To 1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898
Philippines -- History -- 1521-1812. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100785
Subject Latin America
Philippines
Portugal
Spain
Philippinen
Spanien
Portugal
Genre/Form History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenmüller, Christoph, 1969- editor.
LC no. 2017010053
ISBN 9780826358264
0826358268