Here we present an annotated bibliography to complement the study of the Montemar collection of letters.

The imperial Context

Andrien, Kenneth and Kuethe, Allan, The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century. War and the Bourbon Reforms 1713-1796, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Baskes, Jeremy, “Communication Breakdown: Information and Risk in Spanish Atlantic World during an Era of Free Trade and War” in Colonial Latin American Review, 20:1, 35-60.

Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio, Carlos III y la España de la ilustración, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1988.

Elliott, John H., Imperios del mundo atlántico. España y Gran Bretaña en América, 1492-1830, Madrid, Taurus, 2006, p. 268-272.

Paquette, Gabriel, Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Burkholder, Mark; Chandler, D.S., From Impotence to Authority. The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencias, 1687-1808, Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977

Fisher, John, El Perú borbónico (1750-1824), Lima, IEP, 2000.

Moreno Cebrián, Alfredo y Núria Sala i Vila, El «premio» de ser virrey: los intereses públicos y privados en el Perú virreinal de Felipe V. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2004.

Moreno Cebrián, Alfredo, El corregidor de indios y la economía peruana en el siglo XVIII (los repartos forzosos de mercancías). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, 1977.

Campbell, Leon, “Creole Domination of the Audiencia of Lima during the Late Eighteenth Century”, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 52, No 1, Feb. 1972.

Rivero Rodríguez, Manuel, La edad de oro de los virreyes. El virreinato en la monarquía hispánica en los siglos XVI y XVII, Madrid, Akal, 2011.

Ricketts, Monica, “The Rise of the Bourbon Military in Peru, 1768-1820”, in Colonial Latin American Review, 21, 3, 2012.

Marks, Patricia, Deconstructing Legitimacy. Viceroys, Merchants and the Military in Late Colonial Peru, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.

Lohmann Villena, Guillermo, Los ministros de la Audiencia de Lima en el reinado de los Borbones (1700-1821): esquema de un estudio sobre un núcleo dirigente. Sevilla: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1974.

Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century

Chartier, Roger et al., Correspondence. Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, Translated by Christopher Woodall, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press,1997.

Bannet, Eve Tavor, Empire of Letters. Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1688-1820, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Sellers-García, Sylvia, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire´s Periphery, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Nobility and Social Networks

Balmori, Diana; Voss, Stuart F.; Wortman, Miles, Notable Family Networks in Latin America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Chocano, Magdalena, “Linaje y mayorazgo en el Perú colonial” in Revista del Archivo General de la Nación, No 12, 1995.

Donoso, Ricardo, Un letrado del siglo XVIII, el doctor José Perfecto Salas. Buenos Aires:Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2 vols, 1963.

Gen-Liang, Yuen, Family and Empire. The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Flores Arroyo, José Nicolás, “El virrey y la oposición. Una historia política de la administración de justicia” in Pardo-Figueroa Thays, Carlos; Dager Alva, Joseph, El virrey Amat y su tiempo, Lima, PUCP-Instituto Riva Agüero, 2004.

Flores Galindo, Alberto, La ciudad sumergida. Aristocracia y plebe en Lima, 1760-1820, Second Edition, Lima, Horizonte, 1991.

Kicza, John E., Colonial Entrepreneurs. Families and Business in Bourbon Mexico City,

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

Ladd, Doris M., The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780-1826, Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies: University of Texas Press, 1976.

Latasa, Pilar «Negociar en red: familia, amistad y paisanaje; el virrey Superunda y sus agentes en Lima y Cádiz (1745-1761)». En Anuario de Estudios Americanos 60: 2, 2003, pp. 463-492.

Lossio, Jorge, “La llegada al Perú y la orientación general del gobierno virreinal” en Pardo-Figueroa Thays, Carlos; Dager Alva, Joseph, El virrey Amat y su tiempo, Lima, PUCP-Instituto Riva Agüero, 2004.

Mazzeo, Cristina Ana, El comercio libre en el Peru. Las estrategias de un comerciante criollo, José Antonio de Lavalle y Cortés, 1777-1815, Lima, PUCP, 1994.

Nader, Helen, The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1979.

Parrón Salas, Carmen, “Perú y la transición del comercio político al comercio libre, 1740-1778”, Estudios Americanos, LIV, 2, 1997.

Rizo-Patrón Boylan, Paul, Linaje, dote y poder. La nobleza de Lima de 1700 a 1850, Lima, PUCP, 2001.

His goal is to revise the long history of blame on the alleged “silly” and “incompetent” Peruvian upper classes that took the once great Viceroyalty of Peru into an unstable and poor Republic. He argues, instead, that once this almighty Peruvian nobility was disenfranchised under the Republic, society as a whole, not only the nobles, fell into disarray. For his analysis he used different sources, including random correspondence; judicial and parliamentary resolutions; baptism, marriage, and death records; wills and genealogical charts; notary protocols; and municipal records. Among the families in his study is the Carrillo de Albornoz, which he describes as the “wealthiest of noble families in Lima and Peru of the entire second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”

Rizo-Patrón Boylan, Paul, “Grandes propietarias del Perú virreinal: las Salazar y Gabiño” in Margarita Guerra et al., Historias paralelas: actas del primer encuentro de historia Perú-México, Lima, PUCP, 2005.

This is a study of noble women in the Viceroyalty of Peru. The study analyzes the life of several women in colonial Perú, who coming from wealthy families and in absence of male inheritors inherited vast capitals. The author makes an argument for the level of female assertiveness in colonial Vice-Royal leadership, in turn arguing that in Spanish aristocracy there was a more balanced power relation between genders. Two of the three women in the study married two Carrillo de Albornoz siblings. According to the author, these women, asserting their noble rank and took charge of the finances of their estates. The author lists in his sources the will of Pedro Carrillo de Albornoz y Bravo de Lagunas, yet no use of the vast collection of letters that without a doubt would provide not only a better, but an altogether different view of his research and of the research of a whole historical field.

Torres Arancivia, Eduardo, 
Corte de virreyes: el entorno del poder en el Perú del siglo XVII. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2006.