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Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755 (Paperback)
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Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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Corruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American
news cycles, with charges deciding the recent elections in Mexico,
Brazil, and Guatemala. Despite the urgency of the matter, few
recent historical studies on the topic exist, especially on Mexico.
For this reason, Christoph Rosenmuller explores the enigma of
historical corruption. By drawing upon thorough archival research
and a multi-lingual collection of printed primary sources and
secondary literature, Rosenmuller demonstrates how corruption in
the past differed markedly from today. Corruption in Mexico's
colonial period connoted the obstruction of justice; judges, for
example, tortured prisoners to extract cash or accepted bribes to
alter judicial verdicts. In addition, the concept evolved over time
to include several forms of self-advantage in the bureaucracy.
Rosenmuller embeds this important shift from judicial to
administrative corruption within the changing Atlantic World, while
also providing insightful perspectives from the lower social
echelons of colonial Mexico.
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