Abstract

MENDOZA GARCIA, Edgar. Economic Growth of the Community Coffers in the Jurisdiction of Otumba in the Eighteenth Century. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2018, n.58, pp.73-113. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2018.58.63063.

The aim of this article is to consider how the growth of the properties of community coffers of Indian villages from the jurisdiction of Otumba were manifest in the colonial Intendancy of Mexico during the Eighteenth Century, and to explain the consequences of the Bourbon Reforms on the organization and functioning of this economic institution, point out some practical defense strategies of social actors against the establishment of specific regulations that affected their customs and reduced spending on their religious holidays, and in sum, transferred the community surplus into the royal coffers and reduced the power and political and economic autonomy of the republic of Indians and local leaders.

Keywords : Indians; community coffers; lands; economy; Bourbon Reforms.