Author: Arthur Scott Aiton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : es
Pages : 270

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Author: Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004308792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century.

Author: Donald Eugene Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Donald E. Chipman
Publisher: Glendale, Calif : A. H. Clark Company, 1967 [c1966]
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Christoph Rosenmüller
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552382346
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenm ller reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexican history. Alburquerque was appointed by Spain's King Philip V at a time when expanding state power was beginning to meet with opposition in colonial Mexico. The Duke and his retainers, though seemingly working for the crown, actually built close alliances with locals to thwart the reform efforts emanating from Spain. Alburquerque collaborated with contraband traders and opposed the secularization of Indian parishes. He persecuted several local craftsmen and merchants, some of whom died after languishing in jail, accusing them of treason to bolster his own credentials as a loyal official. In the end, however, the dominant clique at the royal court in Madrid sought revenge. Alburquerque was forced to pay an unheard-of indemnity of 700,000 silver pesos to regain the king's favour. Dealing with a topic and period largely ignored by historiography, Rosenm ller exposes the vast patronage power of the viceroy at the historical watershed between the expiring Habsburg dynasty and the incoming Bourbon rulers. His analysis reveals that precursors of the Bourbon reforms and the struggle for Mexican independence were already at play in the early eighteenth century.

Author: Ilona Katzew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300176643
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An absorbing discussion of the myriad depictions of the indigenous people of Mexico and Peru in colonial times

Author: Allan Greer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107160642
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.

Author: Ben Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 503

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Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

Author: Donald E. Chipman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status throughout the colonial period, achieving titles of knighthood and nobility in Mexico and Spain. So respected were they that a Moctezuma descendant by marriage became Viceroy of New Spain (colonial Mexico's highest governmental office) in 1696. This authoritative history follows the fortunes of the principal heirs of Moctezuma II across nearly two centuries. Drawing on extensive research in both Mexican and Spanish archives, Donald E. Chipman shows how daughters Isabel and Mariana and son Pedro and their offspring used lawsuits, strategic marriages, and political maneuvers and alliances to gain pensions, rights of entailment, admission to military orders, and titles of nobility from the Spanish government. Chipman also discusses how the Moctezuma family history illuminates several larger issues in colonial Latin American history, including women's status and opportunities and trans-Atlantic relations between Spain and its New World colonies.

Author: Angela Ballone
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900433548X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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In The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book discusses royal authority from a transatlantic perspective that encompasses both sides of the Iberian Atlantic. Considering the similarities and tensions that coexisted in the Iberian Atlantic, Ballone offers a thorough reassessment of current historiography on the Tumult proving that, despite the conflicts and arguments underlying the disturbances, there was never any intention to do away with the king’s authority in New Spain.