Politics and Trade in Mexico 1750-1821(English, Hardcover, Hamnett Brian R.)

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Politics and Trade in Mexico 1750-1821(English, Hardcover, Hamnett Brian R.) is written by Hamnett Brian R. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521078601 (ISBN 10) and 9780521078603 (ISBN 13).

The province of Oaxaca in southern Mexico was one of the main sources of Spanish wealth during the colonial period. The largely indigenous population supplied dyes and cotton for the Spanish merchants trading both with Spain and within Mexico itself. Much of the trade was conducted in violation of the Laws of the Indies and the royal decrees. The present study traces the struggles of the Spanish Metropolitan Government and the local episcopal authorities in Oaxaca to secure observation of the law. The effects of the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms and of the Mexican Independence movement of 1810-21 are discussed. Brian Hamnett has based his study on archival sources in Seville and Mexico and provides statistical information in both the text and appendices. In addition the author has supplied detailed information concerning individuals - administrators, merchants, landowners, clerics - involved in politics and commerce.