“Tutino’s careful reconstruction of the varied, sometimes contradictory responses of the city’s oligarchs—the greatest stakeholders in New Spain’s colonial order—to silver bonanzas, devastating droughts, rural revolts, imperial wars, and fiscal crises is illuminating.”—Erika Pani, American Historical Review
“Mexico City, 1808 provocatively reorients the history of the international order by placing Mexico’s silver economy at the center of the global economic order of the eighteenth century. Tutino brings the social and economic forces of Mexico City into the narrative of the political crisis of the Spanish monarchy in 1808 that ultimately destroyed the Spanish empire and the transatlantic networks centered on Mexico’s silver economy.”—Michael T. Ducey, author of A Nation of Villages: Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750–1850
