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Property and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. By Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 1999. Pp. xxii, 280. $55.00.)

Despite an extensive literature on the Bourbon Reforms in eighteenth-century Mexico, our understanding of the social and cultural significance of reform remains underdeveloped, although scholars are now turning their attention to such issues. A recent example of such scholarship is this study (originally published in Spanish in 1987), which explores the consequences for Mexico City's urban population of an increasingly ...