... and will undoubtedly provoke much discussion. The purpose of the comments which follow is not to challenge their under lying vision of Bourbon Mexico, but simply to examine the strength of their arguments and to query the reliability of some of their statistics. O-B are at their most original in providing...

... output? Was there a colonywide market for basic commodities in eighteenth-century New Spain? What caused the upward trend in domestic prices in the late Bourbon era? The first of these questions is essentially trivial, since the answer has been known for centuries. The matter was laid to rest...

... in Bourbon Mexico: A Reassessment”? Obviously this reader thought that we should give more attention to our discussion of the Real Caja data and their relationship with other variables. Apparently, our commentators have had similar thoughts. John Coatsworth even thinks that our critique on the recaudación...

... intervention, and who accordingly tried to defend their traditional autonomy. This was not a defiance of the crown’s authority; it was rather an attempt to use and defend an existing system of government, inherited from Hapsburg practice, against Bourbon innovation. Only when this aim was frustrated...

...Eric Van Young Colonial Entrepreneurs: Families and Business in Bourbon Mexico City . By Kicza John E. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1983 . Tables. Map. Illustrations. Appendix. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 313 . Cloth . $24.95...

... the province to alter the laws on tithe collection contributed to the riot in the village of Túquerres, southwest of the city of Pasto; and the Bourbon fiscal reforms were introduced only after much alteration and long delay. The 1780 reform of the aguardiente estanco was not enforced in Pasto until the end...

...Allan J. Kuethe; Lowell Blaisdell Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Scholars over the years have focused considerable attention on the issue of French influence on reformist policy during the Bourbon century and in particular on the reign of Charles III. This emphasis...

...Jorge I. Domínguez Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru . Edited by Fisher John R. , Kuethe Allan J. , and Mcfarlane Anthony . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1991 . Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. xii , 356 pp. Cloth . $47.50...

...Ernest J. Burrus, S.J. The Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers in the Western Borderlands, 1764–1815: Instrument of Bourbon Reform . By Fireman Janet . Introduction by Cutter Donald C. . Glendale, California , 1977 . The Arthur H. Clark Company . Illustrations. Appendixes...

...Arthur S. Aiton Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 The Huancavelica Mercury Mine. A Contribution to the History of the Bourbon Renaissance in the Spanish Empire . By Whitaker Arthur Preston . ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1941 . Pp. xiii , 150 . $2.00 .) ...

... role being the reform of the church. They were not at odds with the king but rather were “confident in the power and patronage of the crown.” 37 Why, one may ask, would churchmen acquiesce in the Bourbon project to make the state the dominant political power and, by clear implication, diminish...

...Kendall W. Brown Bourbon Peru, 1750–1824 . By Fisher John R. . Liverpool Latin American Studies: New Series, no. 4 . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2003 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xix, 224 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press...

...Julia Rodriguez Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms . By Warren Adam . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 290 pp. Paper...

.... Part 2 deals with the religious reform project undertaken after midcentury. A cursory contextual chapter on Bourbon reformism (which, Larkin says, sprang from the same cultural and intellectual well as religious reformism) is followed by a chapter on the project itself, with special attention...

... Bourbon official policy towards the major public diversions of the era. For example, with their enlightened sensibilities, authorities deplored the bullfights as bloodthirsty and barbaric yet recognized their utility as major revenue generators. Although they banned the corrida , authorities were more...

...Renée Soulodre-La France The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–1739): The Politics of Early Bourbon Reform in Spain and Spanish America . By Eissa-Barroso Francisco A. . Early American History Series: The American Colonies, 1500–1830 . Leiden...

... to the Philippines. My research adds to our knowledge of this period of transpacific history by examining Mexican recruits and convicts in Manila during the age of the Bourbon reforms, expanding upon García de los Arcos's findings by taking a broader view of the dynamics within the Spanish empire and by integrating...

...Ainara Vázquez Varela One of the most significant contributions of this study is its emphasis on the scope, aims, and accomplishments of the first two Bourbon kings. Although typically the first phases of the Bourbon reforms have not received the same amount of interest as those implemented...