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Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710 (review)

Historians have paid remarkably little attention to most viceroys of colonial Spanish America. Similarly, the study of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been relatively slight. In this thoughtful examination of the rule of grandee Duke of Alburquerque in New Spain (1702-1710), historian Christoph Rosenmiiller gives overdue attention to a viceroy that served during the War of , Spanish Succession. He focuses particularly on Alburquerque's use of patronage to benefit himself and retainers (criados) he brought from Spain and clients or allies he cultivated in Mexico and the interplay between the viceroy and local elites that occurred in the viceregal court.