The Silver King

The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico

By: Edith Boorstein Couturier

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Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710. When he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain and to assume control of the family's businesses. He married the daughter of a wealthy noble family in Mexico City and continued to build on the combined fortunes as a merchant and a mining entrepreneur.

From the mid-eighteenth century until his death in 1781, Regla was admired for his philanthropy, the recipients of which included colleges and monasteries and he helped establish a banking institution that enabled both rich and poor to pawn goods for cash. Regla's life also illustrates many of the problems facing Mexico today including struggles in the workplace between those who supply the capital for production and those who supply the labor.

Edith Boorstein Couturier uses Regla's career to address the growing social tensions of the eighteenth century, showing how Spanish immigrants could ascend in Mexican society, how entrepreneurship permitted such social climbing, how women sustained their kinsmen, and how elite families rose and fell in New Spain.

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." . a work of social and historical interest that brings to life Regla and the Mexico he inhabited, leaving the reader with a clearer picture of life in colonial Mexico and a vivid image of a memorable man."

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue: Ceremonies and Celebrations	p. 1
Introduction	p. 4
Spain in the Life of Pedro Terreros: 1710-1730	p. 12
Merchant in Queretaro: 1730-1750	p. 24
Silver Miner in Pachuca and Real del Monte: 1741-1766	p. 45
The "Honorable Men" who Worked the Mines	p. 74
Marriage and Family: 1756-1766	p. 94
A House for the Count of Regla: 1764-1781	p. 114
Charities: Spiritual Dimensions of Material Wealth	p. 130
The Final Years: 1766-1781	p. 151
Death and its Aftermath: 1781-1878	p. 172
Conclusion: Ambiguous Legacy	p. 183
Appendix	p. 190
Abbreviations	p. 191
Notes	p. 192
Works Cited	p. 207
Index	p. 217
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