| Résumé: | This paper analyzes Spain's Eighteenth-century tobacco policies in Louisiana, where it created a fiscal institution for mainly political reasons, subordinating economical yields and revenues to the region's political and strategic needs. This case contrasts with the management and exploitation of the same institution in other Spanish colonial properties, which also held monopolies of different products, including tobacco. This study shows that the tobacco monopoly was during the Eighteenth-century one of the Real Hacienda's favorite fiscal instruments for increasing revenues with which to promote economic development in certain colonies. The author's main conclusions refer to the mechanisms through which the Real Hacienda de la Nueva España used tobacco revenues to strengthen the economy of Louisiana.
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