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13 cze 2022 · Colonial Spain had a highly-centralised and hierarchical form of government, where different levels and branches balanced out power so that no single institution or individual could challenge the interests of the Spanish Crown.
These differences in language, culture, and political tradition are the long-term product of the way the Spanish state was created. A proper understanding of this important characteristic of politics in Spain today therefore requires a brief overview of that state-building process.
7 lut 2024 · In this gallery of seven maps, we examine the vast overseas territories of the Spanish Empire from the late 15th century to the 19th century. The empire reached its height during the Age of Exploration and included regions in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
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...
6 wrz 2024 · A colonial period of nearly three centuries followed the major Spanish conquests. The empire was created in a time of rising European absolutism, which flourished in both Spain and Spanish America and reached its height in the 18th century.
In recent decades, historians of colonial Spanish America have not shown much interest in the study of political and institutional history. Originally, this constituted a welcome reaction against the previous emphasis on the institutional and legal aspects of the Spanish empire.
SPANISH COLONIAL PoLICY. I. THE GENERAL POLITICO-ECONOMIC POLICY OF SPAIN. Spain, like other European nations emerging from the mediaeval period had no distinctive economic policy, except as it was incident to and dependent upon a defi-nite political policy. The latter was dependent in turn upon the processes of national development the Erst
