Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule: 75 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 75)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/26/1993
EAN 9780521416412, ISBN10: 0521416418
Hardcover, 418 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. Its purpose is threefold: first, to provide a general portrait of Colombian society during the late colonial period, showing the character of economic, social, and political life in the territory's principal regions; second, to assess the impact on the region of European imperialist expansion during the eighteenth century; and third, to provide a context for understanding the causes of independence. The book offers the only available survey of Colombian history and historiography for this period.
Introduction
1. Foundations
Part I. Economy and Society In Eighteenth-Century New Granada
2. Regions and resources
3. Mining frontiers and the gold economy
Part II. The Economics of Bourbon Colonialism
New Granada and Atlantic Economy
4. New Granada and the Spanish mercantile system, 1700–78
5. Commerce and economy in the age of imperial free trade, 1778–96
6. Merchants and monopoly
Part III. The Politics of Bourbon Colonialism
Reconstructing the Colonial State
7. Renovation
the establishment of the Viceroyalty
8. Innovation
the Visita General and its impact
Part IV. Government and Politics
9. Power, politics, and protest
10. Science and sedition
Part V. Crisis in the Colonial Order
11. War and the weakening of the colonial order
12. The fall of royal government
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography.