The question of who would pay tribute loomed large in the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years. Authorities used taxpayer statuses to classify and extract resources from free people, especially in regions with dense Indigenous populations. Families with African ancestors also paid a price for their freedom in the form of a tribute tax. Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging is a rare study of colonial categorization and tribute in the two viceroyalties. Sarah Albiez-Wieck offers a comparative view of self-fashioning and belonging through petitions, many from archives in Cajamarca and Michoacán as well as Trujillo. The author examines the goals of petitioners to change their official status alongside those of the monarchy to maintain a flexible, yet coherent, tax regime. Albiez-Wieck finds the most striking differences between tributary statuses in New Spain and Peru among people classified as indios...
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November 01 2024
Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging
Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging
. By Sarah Albiez-Wieck. European Expansion and Indigenous Response. Leiden
: Brill
, 2022
. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv, 382
pp. Cloth, $148.00.Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 687–688.
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Norah L. A. Gharala; Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2024; 104 (4): 687–688. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11385026
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