Christoph Rosenmüller

About The Author

Christoph Rosenmüller is a professor of Latin American history at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. His books include Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755, winner of the 2020 Alfred B. Thomas Award from SECOLAS for best book on any Latin American subject, and Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks (UNM Press).

Books by Christoph Rosenmüller

Viceroy Güemes's Mexico

Rituals, Religion, and Revenue

By Christoph Rosenmüller
Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico: Rituals, Religion, and Revenue examines the career of Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasitas, viceroy of New Spain from 1746 to 1755. It provides the best account yet of how the colonial reform process most commonly known as the Bourbon Reforms did not commence with th...
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Corruption in the Iberian Empires

Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

Edited by Christoph Rosenmüller
The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband.
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