Debt Politics after Independence: The Funding Conflict in Bolivia Book

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	Preface
1	Frames of Reference	1
	Debt Concepts and Terminology	3
	Internal Debt Management after Independence	11
	The Spanish Debt-Disentailment Precedent: The Consolidacion de Vales Reales	18
2	Basis for the Debt-Disentailment Link in Bolivia: Rise and Fall of Church Credit in the Rural Sector	32
	Consolidacion de Vales Reales in Upper Peru (Bolivia)	32
	Rural Intensification and the Rise of Haciendas	34
	Church Wealth and Censos Penetration of the Rural Sector	40
	Liberation and Disentailment: Confiscation of Church Wealth by the Sucre Government	46
	Opposition Politics and the Funding Question	63
3	Debt Policy Conflict: Madero's Funded Debt versus Sucre's Floating Debt	66
	Funding Law and the Loan Float	66
	Derivative Conflict: The Mining Bank Debate	81
	Marketing the Treasury Vales: The June 12 Decrees	85
	Hacienda Sales for Debt Paper	89
	Censos Redemptions and State Welfare Dislocation	93
	Loan Pressure on the Public Credit Administration	98
4	National Significance of the Funding Failure	103
	Fenix Indictment of State Debt Policy under Sucre	103
	Assessment of the Infante-Madero Difference on State Debt Policy	108
	State Debt and the Growth of the Rural Land Market in the Nineteenth Century	111
5	Normative and Historiographic Dimensions of Internal State Debt	130
	The Nineteenth-Century Normative Debate on Internal Debt	130
	Latin American Fiscal Historiography	133
	Notes	145
	Bibliography	159
	Index	165