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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focuse exclusively on the early Bourbon Spanish America, this collective volume offers a new perspective on the key changes experienced in Spanish America during the first half of the eighteenth century.

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.

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