Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military in Late Colonial Peru. PATRICIA H. MARKS: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.

Abstract

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in theindependence of Peru.By focusing on the economic and political repercussions of Bourbon reformpolicies in the late colonial period, particularly on their effects on Lima's commerce and merchants, it provides a freshperspective on the decline of Spanish power in Peru and throws new light on thefinal, crisis-torn years of Spanish rule in the early 1820s.