State and Society in Spanish America During

State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution calls into question the orthodox split of Latin American history into colonial and modern, arguing that this split obscures significant economic, social, and even political continuiti

Introduction---Beating a Dead Horse?

xi

Victor M. Uribe-Uran

I The Region's Political Economy

Latin America Was Behind: The Economic Background of Independence

3

(28)

Samuel Amaral

Richard Doringo

``Dutch Disease'' and Other (Dis)Continuities in Latin American History, 1780--1850

31

(28)

Richard J. Salvucci

II Elites, State Building, and Business

The Changing Meaning of Honor, Status, and Class: The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period

59

(30)

Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Doing Business in the Age of Revolution: The Major Import-Export Merchants of Chile

89

(32)

Marti Lamar

III Gender and Family Relations

Marriage and Family Relations in Mexico during the Transition from Colony to Nation

121

(28)

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Gender Ideology, Race, and Female-Headed Households in Urban Mexico, 1750--1850

149

(24)

Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

IV Ideologies, Values, and Cultural Practices

Patriotic Footwork: Social Dance and the Watershed of Independence in Buenos Aires

173

(20)

John Charles Chasteen

Constructing the City, Constructing the State: Architecture and Political Transition in Urban Argentina, 1810--1860

193

(26)

Mark D. Szuchman

Conclusion--Was There an Age of Revolution in Spanish America?

219

(28)

Eric Van Young

Index

247

(12)

About the Contributors

259

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State and Society in Spanish America During the Age of Revolution

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