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Bureaucrats, Planters and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico
by Susan Deans-Smith (1953- )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 029270786X
- ISBN 13
- 9780292707863
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About This Item
xxi+362 pages with 2 maps, 10 figures, 323 tables, appendixes, glossary, selected bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine. in original jacket. First edition.
This work uncovers much that was not previously known about the Bourbon government's management of the tobacco monopoly and the problems and limitations it faced. Deans-Smith finds that there was as much continuity as change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance and resistance. She argues that the problems experienced by the monopoly at the beginning of the nineteenth century did not originate from any simmering, entrenched opposition. Rather, an emphasis upon political stability and short-term profits prevented any innovative reforms that might have improved the monopoly's long-term performance and productivity. With detailed quantitative data and rare material on the urban working poor of colonial Mexico, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers will be important reading for all students of social, economic and labor history, especially of Mexico and Latin America.
Condition:
"hurt books" stamped at head end pages, head page ends soiled. Jacket back wrapper soiled, points lightly rubbed. A very good copy in a near fine jacket.
This work uncovers much that was not previously known about the Bourbon government's management of the tobacco monopoly and the problems and limitations it faced. Deans-Smith finds that there was as much continuity as change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance and resistance. She argues that the problems experienced by the monopoly at the beginning of the nineteenth century did not originate from any simmering, entrenched opposition. Rather, an emphasis upon political stability and short-term profits prevented any innovative reforms that might have improved the monopoly's long-term performance and productivity. With detailed quantitative data and rare material on the urban working poor of colonial Mexico, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers will be important reading for all students of social, economic and labor history, especially of Mexico and Latin America.
Condition:
"hurt books" stamped at head end pages, head page ends soiled. Jacket back wrapper soiled, points lightly rubbed. A very good copy in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS006335
- Title
- Bureaucrats, Planters and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico
- Author
- Susan Deans-Smith (1953- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 029270786X
- ISBN 13
- 9780292707863
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- MEXICO
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colonial America;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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