Political Economy of Spanish America Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	3
2	Iturbide, Congress, and Constitutional Monarchy in Mexico	17
3	Between Bourbon Reforms and Liberal Reforma: The Political Economy of a Mexican Province - Oaxaca, 1750-1850	39
4	State Enterprise, Work, and Workers in Mexico: The Case of the Tobacco Monopoly, 1765-1850	63
5	The Politics of Protection: Interpreting Commercial Policy in Late Bourbon and Early National Mexico	95
6	Mexican Merchants and Their Links to Spain, 1750-1850	115
7	The Spanish Imperial Mercury Trade and the American Mining Expansion Under the Bourbon Monarchy	137
8	The State and Dependency in Late Colonial and Early Republican Ecuador	169
9	Distribution of Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Province: The Issue of Social Justice in a Changing Economy	197
10	Paraguayan Commerce with the Outside World, 1770-1850	215
11	Conclusion	243
	Index	255
	About the Book	263
	Editors and Contributors	265