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This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s, based on a detailed study of the mining city of Oruro in Alto Peru (present-day Bolivia), emphasizing the workings of the judicial system and role of the bureaucracy.Cornblit, Oscar is the author of 'Power and Violence in the Colonial City Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521441483 and ISBN 052144148X.
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