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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.
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.
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.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land ownership and labor laws to favor the new bureaucrats. This portrait of the emerging government in New Spain fills a critical niche in Latin American studies.
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.
In applying this hypothesis to the Spanish imperial bureaucracy, the structural features of the colonial administration must first be outlined. Then the kinds of standards imposed on the colonial magistrates by their superiors in Spain must be classified before the nature of the magistrates' response to the superiors can be assessed.
book.pdf. 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.
