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Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century)

Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book addresses the negotiation of categorizations in colonial societies in Spanish America from a new vantage point: fiscality. In early modern empires (poll) taxes were a significant factor to organize and perpetuate social inequalities. By this, fiscal categorizations had very concrete effects on the daily life of the categorized, on their assets and on their labor force. They intersected with social categorizations such as gender, profession, age and what many authors have termed race or ethnicity, but which is denominated here, more accurately with a term from the sources, calidad. They were imposed by legislation from above and contested via petitions from below, the latter being a type of source scarcely analyzed until now.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-22
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt788 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Expansion and Indigenous Response
Antal sidor384
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004521636

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General Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsFigures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Comparing Cajamarca and Michoacán1.1 Tribute, Labor and Social Units from Prehispanic to Spanish Rule1.2 Cajamarca: between “pueblo de indios” and “villa de españoles”1.3 Changing Capitals and Political Units in Michoacán1.4 Demography in the Regions of Study2 Spanish Colonial Tribute Legislation from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century2.1 Tributary Legislation: Transcending Previous Studies2.2 Colonial Obligations besides Tribute: Indirect Taxes and Labor Service2.3 Tribute and Tributaries: A Perspective from above2.4 Tribute Categorizations from the Conquest to the Bourbon Reforms2.5 The Bourbon Reforms in the Eighteenth Century2.6 The Long Journey toward Abolition in the Nineteenth Century3 Negotiating Belonging and “Calidad” in Petitions3.1 The Petitions3.2 Comparing General Patterns and Chronology3.3 Ancestry and (il)Legitimacy as Central Elements in the Petitions4 Petitions by People Categorized as “Migrants”4.1 “Migrant” Petitions from Cajamarca, Peru4.2 “Migrant” Petitions from Michoacán, New Spain5 Petitions Negotiating “Mixed” Ancestry5.1 Mestizos5.2 Mulattos5.3 Ambiguous Categorizations in Cajamarca: (mixtos) quinteros5.4 The Relationship between laboríos and mulattos in New Spain5.5 Petitions by Women5.6 Unknown Ancestry: The Case of the Foundlings6 Fiscal Categorizations after Independence6.1 Cajamarcan Categorizations and Petitions in the Nineteenth Century6.2 Fiscal Categorizations in Michoacán in the Nineteenth Century7 ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex