Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System 1784-1814

by John R. Fisher

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 T pac Amaru rebellion. Fisher examines relations between the intendants and other groups of administrators, and brings out the revolutionary implications of their attempts to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474241174
• ISBN13: 9781474241175
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"