Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of money and measures
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Foundations
- PART I ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW GRANADA
- PART II THE ECONOMICS OF BOURBON COLONIALISM: NEW GRANADA AND THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY
- PART III THE POLITICS OF BOURBON COLONIALISM: RECONSTRUCTING THE COLONIAL STATE
- PART IV GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
- PART V CRISIS IN THE COLONIAL ORDER
- Epilogue
- Appendix A The population of New Granada
- Appendix B Gold production
- Appendix C Shipping and commerce
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of money and measures
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Foundations
- PART I ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW GRANADA
- PART II THE ECONOMICS OF BOURBON COLONIALISM: NEW GRANADA AND THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY
- PART III THE POLITICS OF BOURBON COLONIALISM: RECONSTRUCTING THE COLONIAL STATE
- PART IV GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
- PART V CRISIS IN THE COLONIAL ORDER
- Epilogue
- Appendix A The population of New Granada
- Appendix B Gold production
- Appendix C Shipping and commerce
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Summary
This is a history of Colombia during the last century of Spanish rule, when the territory of the modern republic of Colombia stood at the heart of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada. Based largely on research in Spanish and Colombian archives, it is primarily designed as a contribution to the historiography of Spanish America during the period of Bourbon rule between 1700 and 1810. However, as there is no general history of Colombia during this period, the present study also aims at a synthesis, combining the results of archival research with the evidence and interpretations found in the specialized works of other historians of colonial Colombia.
The choice of region and period covered by this study are easily explained. Apart from its intrinsic interest, Colombia, or New Granada as it was called during the period of Spanish rule, is a region that deserves more attention from historians of Spanish America. For, although it was a colony of second rank that did not compare in size or wealth to the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain, New Granada was independent of the great colonial economic systems that focused around silver mining in the older viceroyalties, and stands as a separate and distinctive territory with a character of its own.
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- Colombia before IndependenceEconomy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993