Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System 1784-1814 (History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Cover Half-title Title Copyright Preface Contents Abbreviations I. The Decadent Viceroyalty II. Administrative Reorganization III. Intendants and Viceroys IV. Intendants, Subdelegates and Indians V. Intendants and the Exchequer VI. Intendants and the Economy VII. Intendants and Public Administration VIII. Intendants and Cabildos IX. Administration on the Eve of Revolution X. Conclusion Appendices 1. List of intendants with biographical notes 2. Population of the viceroyalty of Peru in 1795 3. Product of the Casa de Moneda of Lima, 1776-1820 4. Tribute revenue, 1780-1811 5. Production of mercury at Huancavelica, 1759-1812 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index "This study of the structure of government and society in late colonial Peru is based upon detailed examination of the operation of the viceroyalty of the system of administration by intendants, partly in response to the demands for better provincial government expressed by the Túpac Amaru rebellion. Fisher examines relations between the intendants and other groups of administrators, and brings out the revolutionary implications of their attempts to stimulate municipal life and government and assesses Peru's increasing political and administrative instability upon the application of the viceroyalty of the Constitution of Cádiz."--Bloomsbury Publishing