Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Foundations; Part I. Economy and Society In Eighteenth-Century New Granada: 2. Regions and resources; 3. Mining frontiers and the gold economy; Part II. The Economics of Bourbon Colonialism: New Granada and Atlantic Economy: 4. New Granada and the Spanish mercantile system, 1700–78; 5. Commerce and economy in the age of imperial free trade, 1778–96; 6. Merchants and monopoly; Part III. The Politics of Bourbon Colonialism: Reconstructing the Colonial State: 7. Renovation: the establishment of the Viceroyalty; 8. Innovation: the Visita General and its impact; Part IV. Government and Politics: 9. Power, politics, and protest; 10. Science and sedition; Part V. Crisis in the Colonial Order: 11. War and the weakening of the colonial order; 12. The fall of royal government; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography.

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This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule.

Reviews

"McFarlane's masterful synthesis is acheived by a thorough and careful reading of the available historiography and by extensive research in Spanish and Colombian archives." American Historical Review "With data drawn from years of patient investigations in archives of Bogota, Madrid, and Seville, [McFarlane] has synthesized and expanded upon the published and unpublished works of Colombian, North American and British scholars to provide a brilliant portrait of eighteenth-century New Grenada." Jane M. Rausch, Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies