Administrators of empire / edited by Mark A. Burkholder.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Expanding world ; v. 22.
Other Authors: Burkholder, Mark A., 1943-
Language:English
Published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998], ©1998.
Series:Expanding world ; v. 22.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxvii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Authority and flexibility in the Spanish imperial bureaucracy / John Leddy Phelan
  • Bureaucrats / Mark A. Burkholder
  • Sale of fiscal offices and the decline of royal authority in the viceroyalty of Peru, 1633-1700 / Kenneth J. Andrien
  • Creole appointments and the sale of audiencia positions in the Spanish empire under the early Bourbons, 1701-1750 / M.A. Burkholder and D.S. Chandler
  • Elites and cadres in Bourbon Chile / Jacques A. Barbier
  • Government and élite in late colonial Mexico / D.A. Brading
  • Intendants and cabildos in the viceroyalty of La Plata, 1782-1810 / John Lynch
  • Magistracy and society in colonial Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz
  • Army and empire : English garrison government in Britain and America, 1569-1763 / Stephen Saunders Webb
  • Governors or generals? : a note on martial law and the revolution of 1689 in English America / Ian Steele
  • Sir Thomas Lawrence, secretary of Maryland : a royal placeman's fortunes in America / David W. Jordan
  • Politics in New Hampshire under Governor Benning Wentworth, 1741-1767 / Jere R. Daniell
  • Customs and contentions : John Hattton of Salem and Cohansey, 1764-1776 / Larry R. Gerlach
  • Colonial civil servant and counter-revolutionary : Thomas Irving (1738?-1800) in Boston, Charleston, and London / John J. McCusker
  • Jonathan Duncan : a lesson in administrative survival / Neil Rabitoy
  • Politics, patronage, and the imperial interest : Charles de Beauharnais's disputes with Gilles Hocquart / Dale S. Standen.