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- He jailed corrupt officials, changed the tax structure, instituted a highly profitable tobacco monopoly, and shifted the control of trade with Spain from Mexican to Spanish merchants. In so doing, he forced capital into mining, which he aided with tax reductions, cheap mercury, and technical assistance.
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The political, economic, social, and religious transformation of New Spain during this period became a model that other parts of the empire followed. Bureaucracy on the Ground in Colonial Mexico explores those sources and retraces the steps of the Visitador.
All of this economic information served the fundamental purpose of the visita. The reason that the monarch had sent Gálvez to New Spain was to increase the Crown’s understanding of political and economic functioning throughout modern-day Mexico.
The Visita Begins. After the monarch named him Visitador in 1765, Gálvez set off on the long journey from Spain to Mexico. Upon arrival, he had many tasks that pulled him in multiple directions.
Abstract. This article examines the political imbroglios surrounding the tenure of Jos? Garc?a de Le?n y Pizarro (1778?84) as visitador and president-regent of the Audiencia or Kingdom of Quito, in order to demonstrate the deep political divisions that emerged in Spain's Adantic empire over the Bourbon Reforms.
During the Porfiriato, an expanding Atlantic economy targeted Mexican raw materials for export to the industrializing economies in the United States and Europe.
May 1, 2009 · It argues that the achievement of political stability—through the establishment of a strong state—plus a change in development strategy and institutional modernization permitted the removal of key constraints on Mexico's economic growth starting in the 1870s.
