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This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in Spain and its American empire in the second half of the Eighteenth century. It examines the intellectual foundation of commercial, administrative and colonial policy during the tumultuous reigns of Charles III and Charles IV.
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.
THE STRUCTIJRE OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. A rudimentary understanding of the organization and operation of Spain's overseas empire is useful in assessing the definitive value of a document. This section presents an overview of the structure and function of Spanish colonial government with the obvious proviso that exceptions were almost as ...
Almodóvar’s cosmopolitan outlook was primarily instrumental, an enlightened narrative to vindicate certain Spanish colonial policies and to promote the reform of other practices. Almodóvar’s conception of international and colonial commerce did not strictly mimic Raynal’s views.
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 view of the predominate role of the colonial bureaucracy in creating conditions of durable social stability, the dynamics of this system merit some scrutiny. The aim of this essay is to examine the Spanish bureaucracy in terms of a thought-provoking hypothe-sis recently advanced by Andrew Gunder Frank. Although Frank's
1 The state and democracy in Spain: a historical overview. Spain’s democratic regime today is a stable, con-solidated system that fits well within the main-stream of West European democracies. As we will see in the following chapters, it does have some distinguishing characteristics, but several of these (such as its high level of cabinet ...
