Contents -- Introduction: Power and Patronage -- One: Patrons and Clients -- General Characteristics of Patron-Client Relationships -- Fidelity Relationships -- Variability among Patrons and Clients -- Two: Brokers -- General Characteristics of Brokers -- Variability among Brokers -- Three: Clienteles -- Clienteles and Provincial Institutions -- Great Noble and Administrative Clienteles -- Four: Brokers and Political Integration -- Brokers and Institutions -- Brokers as Troubleshooters -- Brokers and Intendants -- Five: Brokerage and the Nobility -- Sixteenth-Century Brokers of Royal Patronage -- Seventeenth-Century Brokers of Royal Patronage -- Noble Power and Brokerage -- Six: Clientelism and the Early Modern State -- Clientelism and Conflict -- Clientelism and Corruption -- Clientelism and Change -- Epilogue: Clientelism and Bureaucracy -- Conclusion: Nobles, Brokers, and Statebuilding -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.