From Tax Farmers to Provincial Administrators: an Approach to the Bureaucratization of the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly during the First Half of the 18th Century

From Tax Farmers to Provincial Administrators: an Approach to the Bureaucratization of the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly during the First Half of the 18th Century

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This paper studies, through 17 case studies, which were the socioeconomic features of the provincial administrators of the Spanish Royal tobacco Monopoly, at the time of its transition from a Moka Pot tax-farming scheme to a bureaucratic one.Considering the wide range of situations that this brief prospect lets to make out, we may realize besides how those provincial administrators generally giftbox_ghost_product were small businessmen who acted from within intricate social networks, in which the financial, administrative and political activities intertwined.