The Eighteenth Century

What changes were made by the Spanish in their American colonies in the eighteenth century? Why?
How had colonial demographies, economies, and societies changed by the eighteenth century?
Why were there so many riots and rebellions in 18th century Latin America? Were they a sign that Spain and Portugal were losing control of their colonies?
What historical use can scholars make of riots and rebellions? How have they used E.P. Thompson's ideas about "moral economy" to interpret riots in colonial Spanish America?

McFarlane, Anthony, 'Rebellions in Late Colonial Spanish America: A Comparative Perspective', Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 14:3 (1995).
Stavig, Ward “Ethnic Conflict, Moral Economy and Population in Rural Cuzco on the Eve of the Thupa Amaro II Rebellion,” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol.68, (1988).
Deeds, Susan.M. "The Enlightened Colony." In W.H. Beezley (Ed.). A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, Blackwell, 2011.

Echeverri, Marcela. Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) [e-book @ Library]
Kenneth Maxwell. Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808. Routledge, 2004. [e-book @ Library]
Mills, Kenneth and William Taylor, Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History, SR Books (Wilmington, 1998), Part IV: Bourbon Reforms and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century.
Serulnikov, Sergio. Revolution in the Andes:The Age of Tupac Amaru, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2013.
Stern, Steve, “The Age of Andean Insurrection, 1742-1782: A Reappraisal,” in Steve Stern ed., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, 1987), pp.29-93.
Viqueira Albán, Juan Pedro, Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico, trans. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera and Sergio Rivera Ayala, SR Books (Wilmington, 1999).
Walker, Charles F.. Smoldering Ashes : Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840 Duke University Press, 1999. (Chapter 2)
Thompson, E.P., ‘The Moral Economy of an English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century’, Past & Present, no. 50 (1971).

Areche, José Antonio de, “All Must Die,” 1781, in The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, eds. Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori and Robin Kirk, Duke University Press (Durham, 1995), pp. 157-161. (See also Flores Galindo, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion) (E-book at Library)