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Preface: Pivotal Years and Historical Dialogues
Terms of Analysis: New Spain in Spanish America
Introduction. Imperial Crisis and Regime Transformation in the Silver Metropolis
Part I. City of Silver: Power and Social Order, 1760-1810
Chapter One. From Mexica Capital to Silver Metropolis, 1350-1770
Chapter Two. Oligarchy: Power in the Capital of Silver Capitalism
Chapter Three. In the Shadows of Power: Oligarchs, Provincials, and Professionals
Chapter Four. Getting By: Life and Work in the Barrios
Chapter Five. Keys to the City: Stabilizing Power and Inequity
Part II. The Politics of Empire, 1765-1810: From Mediation to Revolution
Chapter Six. Time of Trial: Bourbon Reforms, Regional Risings, and Regime Restoration, 1765-1771
Chapter Seven. Carrying On: War, Silver Capitalism, and Social Peace, 1770-1800
Chapter Eight. Toward Crisis: War, Revenue, Faction, and the Fall of the Monarchy, 1800-1808
Chapter Nine. Summer of Politics, 1808: Contesting Power and Popular Sovereignties
Chapter Ten. September Coup, 1808: Military Power and Imagined Revolutions
Chapter Eleven. The Fall: From Silver Capitalism to Social Revolution, 1808-1810
Conclusion. Popular Politics and Coercive Powers: Mexico and the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
