Early Bourbon Spanish America : politics and society in a forgotten era (1700-1759) / / edited by Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso, Ainara Vázquez Varela.

• TeilnehmendeR: Eissa-Barroso, Francisco A.; Vázquez Varela, Ainara.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Early American History Series 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The years between the accession of the house of Bourbon to the Spanish throne in 1700 and the coronation of Carlos III in 1759 have often been bundled up, and dismissed, together with the later years of Habsburg rule. Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focus exclusively on Early Bourbon Spanish America, this collective volume gives prominence to the first half of the eighteenth century as a distinct historical period. Discussing from different methodological and geographical perspectives the ways in which the Bourbon succession, international competition over access to Spanish American resources, and war affected the Indies, the contributors examine some of the key changes experienced in Spanish America at the local, provincial and imperial level.

Table of Contents

Felipe V: caesura or continuity? / Christopher Storrs -- Cardinal Alberoni and reform in the American empire / Allan J. Kuethe -- "The honor of the Spanish nation": military officers, Mediterranean campaigns and American government under Felipe V / Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso -- From Peru to the Jacobite court: the multiple spaces of social mobility during the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon rule / Nuria Sala i Vila -- The global politics of the transatlantic slave trade during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715 / Aaron Alejandro Olivas -- Jorge de Villalonga's entourage: political networking and administrative reform in Santa Fe (1717-1723) / Ainara Vazquez Varela -- Trade control, law and flexibility: merchants and crown interests in Panama, 1700-1750 / Silvia Espelt Bombin -- "The Indians long for change": the secularization of regular parishes in New Spain, 1749-1755 / Christoph Rosenmuller.