Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System 1784-1814
By (Author) John R. Fisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
1st December 2015
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government
985.033
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
630g
This study of the structure of government and society in late colonial Peru is based upon detailed examination of the operation of the viceroyalty of the system of administration by intendants, partly in response to the demands for better provincial government expressed by the Tpac Amaru rebellion. Fisher examines relations between the intendants and other groups of administrators, and brings out the revolutionary implications of their attempts to stimulate municipal life and government and assesses Perus increasing political and administrative instability upon the application of the viceroyalty of the Constitution of Cdiz.
John R. Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Liverpool, UK.