The Cabildo in Peru Under the Bourbons
Author: John Preston Moore
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Preston Moore
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Preston Moore
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Altagracia Ortiz
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780838630082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the application of the Bourbon reforms to Puerto Rico during the reign of Charles III. The author examines in detail the administration of Miguel de Muesas, for it was during his bureaucratic rule that the first reforms were initiated.
Author: John Robert Fisher
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0853239088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
Author: Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-05-13
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521626736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a new interpretation of Spanish American independence, emphasising political processes.
Author: Gilbert R. Cruz
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780890966778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three pillars supported the empire of New Spain. The first two, the presidio and the mission, have lived on in history and the popular imagination. The third, less studied and less understood, has lived on in the traditions of local self-governance and the distinctive cultural and social patterns of the Southwest. That third pillar is the civil settlement, or town, with its distinctive governmental institutions. Town councils, or cabildos, brought to the northern frontier a high degree of law and order, patterns of local government, a rough democracy, and the principle of justice based on rule of law. The towns populated the Borderlands, introduced industry, and contributed to the economy and defense of Hispanic territories. Let There Be Towns presents the origins and contributions of six of the early settlements of New Spain--San Antonio and Laredo in Spanish Texas, Santa Fe and El Paso in Nuevo Mexico, and San Jose and Los Angeles in Alta California. In Let There Be Towns, Gilbert R. Cruz carefully assesses their importance as part of the Spanish government's policy for implanting in North America the linguistic, social, religious, and political values of the crown. Ten years of archival study, as well as travel through Spain and Mexico researching the origins of colonial towns in parent institutions, have led the author to the provocative conclusion that town settlements and their civil governments were even more important than the more glamorous missions and presidios in establishing Spanish dominion over the northern Borderlands.
Author: Jordana Dym
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780826339096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.
Author: Leslie S. Offutt
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0816541787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the end of the eighteenth century, the community of Saltillo in northeastern Mexico was a thriving hub of commerce. Over the previous hundred years its population had doubled to 11,000, and the town was no longer limited to a peripheral role in the country's economy. Leslie Offutt examines the social and economic history of this major late-colonial trading center to cast new light on our understanding of Mexico's regional history. Drawing on a vast amount of original research, Offutt contends that northern Mexico in general has too often been misportrayed as a backwater frontier region, and she shows how Saltillo assumed a significance that set it apart from other towns in the northern reaches of New Spain. Saltillo was home to a richly textured society that stands in sharp contrast to images portrayed in earlier scholarship, and Offutt examines two of its most important socioeconomic groups—merchants and landowners—to reveal the complexity and vitality of the region's agriculture, ranching, and trade. By delineating the business transactions, social links, and political interaction between these groups, she shows how leading merchants came to dominate the larger society and helped establish the centrality of the town. She also examines the local political sphere and the social basis of officeholding—in which merchants generally held higher-status posts—and shows that, unlike other areas of late colonial Mexico, Saltillo witnessed little conflict between creoles and peninsulars. The growing significance of this town and region exemplifies the increasing complexity of Mexico's social, economic, and political landscape in the late colonial era, and it anticipates the phenomenon of regionalism that has characterized the nation since Independence. Offutt's study reassesses traditional assumptions regarding the social and economic marginality of this trading center, and it offers scholars of Mexican and borderlands studies alike a new way of looking at this important region.
Author: Colin M. MacLachlan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780520074101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Eugene Rodriguez
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2021-03-17
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0807175005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808. His work questions that of earlier historians, who argued that Latin America was fundamentally conservative and complaisant under Bourbon rule. Instead, Spanish New Orleans shows that in the capital of Louisiana, Spanish rulers were slowly losing control of three interwoven aspects of the city: demography, trade, and political discourse. Rodriguez demonstrates how the multiethnic, multilingual population of the city played a central role in encouraging trans-imperial free trade and especially trade with the United States, to the point of economic dependence. This dependence in turn prompted the Bourbon governors in New Orleans to negotiate both economic and political discourse in a city that was steadily moving closer in every way to the United States. Far from being a peripheral city in a peripheral colony, by 1803 New Orleans was reshaping the Spanish empire beyond the comprehension of the Spanish king. Chapters on the city’s foundational merchants, literacy, and the judicial system all point to the unique character of this imperial city on the American periphery. This study marks new methodological paths for historians of Latin America and early U.S. history by making use of enormous data compilations on population, ethnicity, and economics. Rodriguez also analyzes previously ignored eighteenth-century Spanish-language documents, including petitions, postal records, and military rosters, and engages underutilized tools such as signature analysis. Through his use of original sources and innovative methodologies, Rodriguez makes new and intriguing comparisons between New Orleans and other contemporary Spanish imperial cities as well as cities in the then-expanding United States. In Spanish New Orleans, Rodriguez goes beyond simply positioning New Orleans within Spanish imperial history. Taking a broader view, he considers what Spanish New Orleans reveals about the challenges and opportunities faced by the Spanish Bourbon empire, and he sheds light on how a new North American empire could so quickly and easily absorb a Spanish city.