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Starting from the quantitative reconstruction of revenues and expenses of the Royal Treasury in the Yucatan province during the period 1801-1821, the paper shows the transition from an unbalanced regional fiscal structure that depended on colonial transfers (situados) to offset the deficit, to one self-sufficient structure in the context of the Independence War and the liberalism of the Cortes de Cadiz. An autonomy based on the indigenous capitation tax and the fiscal control of foreign trade that was made in the ports of the Yucatan Peninsula.

This essay examines the Spanish reconcentración of Cuban peasants during the final war of independence. It argues that the forced relocation of the rural population produced negative associations between Cuban guajiros and blackness, criminality and disease that furthered the political interests of the Cuban, Spanish and US militaries. The essay also highlights how the US military occupation that followed independence reinforced the criminalisation of the guajiro and organised existing urban and rural divisions in Cuba.

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Los Impactos Fiscales De Una Guerra Distante: Crisis y Restauración De La Real Hacienda En La Provincia De Yucatán (1801–1821)*: The fiscal impacts of a distant war: crises and restoration of the royal treasury in Yucatan province (1801-1821)

Urban Guajiros: Colonial Reconcentración, Rural Displacement and Criminalisation in Western Cuba, 1895–1902

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Los Impactos Fiscales De Una Guerra Distante: Crisis y Restauración De La Real Hacienda En La Provincia De Yucatán (1801–1821)*: The fiscal impacts of a distant war: crises and restoration of the royal treasury in Yucatan province (1801-1821)

Urban Guajiros: Colonial Reconcentración, Rural Displacement and Criminalisation in Western Cuba, 1895–1902