• The salt monopoly, the state, and Boyaca
• Change and community in La Salina
• Making salt in a ministry works
• The ministry monopoly and the market monopoly
• La Salina and Colombian history to 1857
• La Salina, Boyaca, and Colombia after 1857.

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Joshua M. Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative period.
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