During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...
When we think on the economy of the American viceroyalties, we consider immediately the extraction of natural resources and the creation of new enterprises or industries in the New World. Few scholars, except persons like María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, have taken the responsibility of studying how credit was the...
The economic history of the American viceroyalties has some classic studies. In the Hispanic region, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) claims several studies published by its Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (Institute of Historical Research). Now we are going to write out a fragment of the introduction of the...