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13 cze 2022 · The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils.
Structure and attention to detail characterized Spanish colonial government in the Western Hemi sphere. Responsibilities in the chain of command were clearly defined, but the system admitted many exceptions.
19 mar 2013 · Infamously complex and mutable, yet in some ways surprisingly standardized, the Spanish governance of colonial America is a much-explored topic that remains an important subject of historical analysis.
In any case, the colonial relationship held undeniable weight in the Philippines’ evolution and left an unquestionable legacy, which will be ana-lyzed in the following pages. 1 The chapter seeks to answer a series of ques-tions: What colonial models did the Spanish establish in the Philippines?
19 mar 2013 · This essay argues for a need to develop a new political history of colonial Spanish America in order to bring up to date the old institutional history of the Spanish empire. In recent decades, histor...
THE STRUCTURE OF THE COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION At the summit of the Spanish colonial bureaucracy was the king. Directly under the monarch was the Council of the Indies, exercis-ing by royal delegation supreme jurisdiction over all phases of the colonial administration: legislative, financial, judicial, military, ecclesiastical, and commercial.
The system of colonial government remained intact, but the foundations of the empire, strained by continuous international war, were finally undermined when in 1808 Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821) invaded Spain, seized the throne, and precipitated a crisis of imperial authority.
