Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose by Hill, Ruth

Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826514929)

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Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose by Hill, Ruth

Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose

$99.95
Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose by Hill, Ruth

Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose

$99.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ruth Hill
ISBN-10: 0826514928
ISBN-13: 9780826514929
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2006
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.26h x 7.48w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2055
By Ruth Hill
By Ruth Hill
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Ruth Hill is a professor of Spanish and Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

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