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Plata y libranzas: La articulación comercial del México borbónico

Stanley J. Stein
Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 169–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-71.1.169
Published: 01 February 1991
...Stanley J. Stein Plata y libranzas: La articulación comercial del México borbónico . By Herrero Pedro Pérez . Mexico City : El Colegio de México , 1988 . Introduction. Figures. Tables. Graphs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. 362 pp. Paper. Copyright 1991 by Duke University...
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El crédito en Nueva España

Linda Greenow
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 148–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-1-148
Published: 01 February 2001
... and miners through their credit and other financial relationships. Pedro Pérez Herrero then successfully leads the reader through a thorny thicket of definitions and uses of libranzas , concluding that they eventually became financial products to be bought and sold themselves, not simply documents...
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The Cacao Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Province of Caracas and the Spanish Cacao Market

Eugenio Piñero
Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (1): 75–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-68.1.75
Published: 01 February 1988
...: official salaries; the situados 58 of La Guaira, Cumaná, and Margarita; the salaries of missionaries in Píritu and Cumaná and of the priest of Maiquetía; soldiers’ funerals, private libranzas; 59 and other allowances for the missions of Cumaná. The itemized expenditures in pesos for the period...
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The Computer and the Colonial Treasury Accounts: A Proposal for a Methodology

Paul E. Hoffman
Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 731–740.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-50.4.731
Published: 01 November 1970
... Report , II-1. 15 Most entries in the accounts contain several dates. The author’s research has concentrated on studying the actual yearly cost of defense. Consequently, the preferred date is the date of the carta de pago . If that is not given, then the date of libranza is preferred. Lacking...
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Juan Marchena Fernández (1954–2022)

Allan J. Kuethe
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 529–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10589040
Published: 01 August 2023
...—often by simply accepting small libranzas furnished to the soldiery as pay—but such services, Marchena showed, carried a price. The appointment of creoles as cadets in the local garrisons, their eventual entrance into the officer corps, and their subsequent promotions followed. Among these officers...
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The Consolidación de Vales Reales in the Bishopric of Michoacán

Margaret Chowning
Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 451–478.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-69.3.451
Published: 01 August 1989
.... Perhaps recognizing the potentially serious effects of the decree on an economy so dependent on credit—but more likely because it had no other choice— the treasury permitted ecclesiastical debts to be redeemed in promissory notes ( libranzas ). Libranzas made up over 50 percent of the sums collected...
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Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World

Jonathan C. Brown
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 765–771.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-3-4-765
Published: 01 August 2001
... colonial libranza , the letter of credit that had always compensated for the shortage of silver specie. They bought and sold ranches with great facility. Those gaining usufruct of land under traditional registries had every expectation of enjoying the fruits thereof. Landowners divided up large estates...
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Subsidizing the Costs of Loyalty: Lima, Montevideo, and the Making of the Loyalist Río de la Plata, 1810–1814

Álvaro Caso Bello
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 31–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10216456
Published: 01 February 2023
..., Estructura económico-social , 51; Sandrín, “La actividad económica.” 44. See Sala de Tourón, de la Torre, and Rodríguez, Estructura económico-social . 45. This was the case every year between 1795 and 1806. TePaske and Klein, Chile . 46. “Libranza de marina,” Montevideo, 2 Mar. 1814...
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Tending the Store: Trade and Silver at the Real de Huautla, 1778-1781

Stanley J. Stein
Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 377–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-77.3.377
Published: 01 August 1997
... European and Asian textiles— bretañas, indianillas españolas, paliacates chinos, and silk stockings. Settlement of accounts with their suppliers involved a sophisticated financial instrument in widespread use: the bill of exchange (libranza) . 16 Although resident merchants usually scorned...
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Financing the Central American Federation, 1821-1838

Robert S. Smith
Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 483–510.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-43.4.483
Published: 01 November 1963
... of a long-term loan. These, or another issue of vales, were still in circulation in July, 1829, when Congress ruled that paper money would not be accepted for more than one-third of customs duties. The following month the federal legislature approved an issue of 200,000 pesos in treasury bills ( libranzas...
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Reassessing the Role of Credit in Late Colonial Peru: Censos, Escrituras, and Imposiciones

Alfonso W. Quiroz
Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 193–230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-74.2.193
Published: 01 May 1994
... of Reform in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1608–1695 ," Journal of Latin American Studies 13:1 (May 1981), 1-19; Jacques Bar bier, “Venezuelan ‘Libranzas,’ 1788-1807: From Economic Nostrum to Fiscal Imperative,” The Americas 37 (1981), 457-78; Pedro Pérez Herrero, Plata y libranzas: la articulación...
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The Mexican Church and the Rebellion of the Polkos

Michael P. Costeloe
Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 170–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-46.2.170
Published: 01 May 1966
... finance the rebels : Razón de las cantidades entregadas en numerario y por libranzas aceptadas a los Sres. General D. Matías Peña y Barragán, Comisario D. Miguel Arroyo, y otros varios, para las atenciones del Ejército Salvador, de las que son responsables los que subscriben. . .. A saber...
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Dynamics and Autonomy of a Traditional Marketing System: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860

Jonathan C. Brown
Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 605–629.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-56.4.605
Published: 01 November 1976
... and distribution of goods. First appearing in 1826, Buenos Aires provincial paper currency facilitated local exchange in an era when silver pesos (or pesos fuertes ) were becoming scarce. Native merchants carried on trade to other provinces with the libranza , a letter of credit drafted in pesos fuertes...
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El monopolio estatal del mercurio en Nueva España durante el siglo XVIII

Rafael Dobado González
Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 685–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-4-685
Published: 01 November 2002
... exterior de México desde la conquista hasta hoy (México, D. F.: Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, 1867); Pedro Pérez Herrero, Plata y libranzas: La articulación comercial del México borbónico (México, D. F.: Centro de Estudios Históricos, Colegio de México, 1988); y Pilar González, “Creación de la...
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British Merchant Houses in Mexico, 1821–1860: Conforming Business Practices and Ethics

Hilame J. Heath
Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 261–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-73.2.261
Published: 01 May 1993
... for the British colonies with libranzas (promissory notes) payable in London—all drove the cost of silver up. 27 With few other means of remittance, a combination of specie and bills continued for awhile as the normal means of feeding overseas credit. Internally, the means were multifarious. Bills...
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Silver Symbiosis: ReOrienting Mexican Economic History

William Schell, Jr.
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 89–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-1-89
Published: 01 February 2001
... by exchanging pesos for real cedula de libranzas (royal promissory notes) that they redeemed in pesos in Cuba or Mexico at 10 percent (or more) over face value. 62 As Mexico’s wars of independence disrupted silver production, mintage shrank from 24 million pesos to less than 4 million in 1810...
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The Execution of the Law of Consolidación in New Spain: Economic Aims and Results

Asunción Lavrin
Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 27–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-53.1.27
Published: 01 February 1973
... issued from 1805 onwards against the royal treasury in New Spain give evidence of the urgent need of funds by the Spanish government. 12 Between December 1804 and November 1807 the Crown issued numerous drafts (libranzas) , totalling well over 10 million pesos, to be paid by the treasury of New Spain...
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El impacto del crédito en la economía rural del norte de la Nueva Galicia

Águeda Jiménez-Pelayo
Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 501–529.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-71.3.501
Published: 01 August 1991
...; Pedro Pérez Herrero, Plata y libranzas. La articulación comercial del México borbónico (México, 1988), 201; Richard Lindley, Kinship and Credit in the Structure of Guadalajara’s Oligarchy 1800-1830” (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1976), 123. 5 Michael Costeloe, Church Wealth...
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The Spanish American Hacienda: A Survey of Recent Research and Debate

Magnus Mörner
Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 183–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-53.2.183
Published: 01 May 1973
... was apparently very profitable. It is interesting to observe its close links with merchant houses as far away as Mexico City. “Through their annual sales [they] amassed credits with the commercial houses, drawing against these accounts by means of libranzas or drafts.” 93 But this latifundio seems to have...
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Author and Title Index

Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (1): 1–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.1.1
Published: 01 February 1996
..., by Ricardo B. Sawrey A. and Susan Stettridge Sawrey, reviewed, 71:875-77 Perez-Diaz, Victor M., The Return of Civil Society: The Emergence of Democratic Spain, reviewed, 74:382-83 Perez Herrero, Pedro, Comercio y mercados en America Latina colonial, reviewed, 73:688-89; Plata y libranzas: la articu­ lation...
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