Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. By Kathryn Burns. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 283. Appendices. Bibliography. Figures. Cloth $49.95. Paper $17.95.)
teenth century, and came to play a significant role in royal finances. It is interesting how he, and others like him, stood on the edge of the official monopoly. One suspects his activities could be further fleshed out by detailed research in the notarial archive in Seville. Antonio Gutierrez Escudero follows with a survey of the tobacco industry in Santo Domingo, over the long term, but focusing on the late eighteenth century when much of the export went to the Real Fabrica de Sevilla. Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse then examines "neutral commerce" (especially the last part of the 1790s) and family networks near the end of the colonial period. Family relationships are clearly important in late colonial trade, as they were earlier. And, in the 1790s, the researcher faces the complication of those from areas traditionally outside the empire being integrated into already existing, although rapidly changing, networks. John R. Fisher looks at trade and imperial policy in his survey of the critical period 1797-1820, updating his earlier work on the subject, and providing bibliographical insight and suggestions for new directions in research. Carmen Parron Salas concentrates on various elements of the changing economy in late colonial Peru. The expulsion of foreigners from Peru and its trade, the role of the consulado and merchant elite, and the organization of trade with the Philippines are principal points of departure for her stimulating essay. In a final chapter, Alfredo Moreno Cebrian examines fiscal policy, corruption and the marketplace in Mexico and Peru from 1746 to 1777. There is ample new material packed in the footnotes of this important bibliographical essay (as an example, page 268 with two lines of text, fifty of notes) that provides a good start for those wishing to pursue the intricacies of the local economy at closer range.