Silva, C.S. 1995 . Indians, merchants, and bureaucracy in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1786-1860. Ph.D. Thesis; The University of California, San Diego 316 pp.

Notes: [Ph.D. Thesis; Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, Advisor.] The dissertation demonstrates that during the transition from the Colonial to the Republican period, the Indian Communities of Oaxaca played a major role in implementing a liberal policy at the regional level. The work emphasizes that the transfer of wealth (peasant production of cochineal and tribute) from the indigenous to the non indigenous sector was decisive in maintaining a powerful group of merchants with old colonial roots.