Politics and Reform in Spain and Viceregal Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox 1600-1659

By Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo

This work examines the relationship between Spain and America in the seventeenth century through the life and thought of Juan de Palafox, a protege of the count-duke of Olivares who became Visitor General of New Spain. Alvarez de Toledo explores the failed attempt made by Palafox to reform
overseas government on constitutional lines, and thus throws light upon the Spanish practice of empire and on how the transatlantic relationship worked and developed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270287
• ISBN13: 9780199270286
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.8"