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Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

By Christoph Rosenmuller

Book information

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
2017
ISBN
082635825X, 9780826358257
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2655589 bytes)
Pages
240\237
Time added
2018-06-26 15:21:17
True Crime;Espionage;Hoaxes & Deceptions;Murder &

Description

This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits, jail them, or, sometimes, have them “garroted and their corpses publicly displayed.”

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