Corruption in the Iberian Empires

Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

AvChristoph Rosenmüller,Christoph Rosenmüller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-30
Mått:154 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:University of New Mexico Press
ISBN:9780826358257

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Christoph Rosenmüller is a professor of Latin American history at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and a former Fulbright fellow. He is also the author of Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710.

Recensioner i media

“This fascinating collection of detailed studies rests on archival research spanning more than two centuries of Iberian rule and provides insight into the changing meaning of corruption from the Río de la Plata to Mexico to the Philippine Islands.”—Mark A. Burkholder, author of Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars?