Reflexions

Authors

  • Allan J. Kuethe Texas Tech University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.tempus.326163

Keywords:

Borbon reforms, Alberoni, Patiño, New Granada, Charles III

Abstract

This essay traces the evolution of my research interests from their beginnings on the American side of the eighteenth-century colonial system to their shift across the Atlantic to Cádiz and Madrid, evolving from military reform, first in New Granada and then in Cuba, to the Consulado of Cádiz and commercial policy, and, finally, to the shaping of the reformist agenda at court itself. Mirroring my findings, it treats the Bourbon commercial, military, naval, and clerical reforms through three distinct but interlocking phases, spanning the period from 1713 to 1796. These include (1) the beginnings under Alberoni and Patiño, (2) innovation and reaction, 1736-1762, and (3) the policies of Charles III and their continuation under his son. The perspective keeps both sides of the Atlantic in view while addressing the highly contested, ever changing political struggles of the reformist period, all set against the interplay between Madrid and its colonial rivals.

|Abstract
= 125 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
= 85 veces|

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Allan J. Kuethe, Texas Tech University

Historian and Hispanicist, Honorary Professor at Texas Tech University.

References

Bushnell, David. The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1954.

Fisher, John R.; Kuethe, Allan J. y McFarlane, Anthony, eds. Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Garate Ojanguren, Montserrate. La Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas. San Sebastián: Sociedad Guipuzcoana de Ediciones y Publicaciones, 1990.

Garrido Conde, María Teresa. La primera creación del Virreinato de Nueva Granada (1717-1723). Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1965.

Hussey, Roland Dennis. The Caracas Company, 1728-1784. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.

Kuethe, Allan J. Cuba, 1753-1815: Crown, Military, and Society. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Kuethe, Allan J. Military Reform and Society in New Granada, 1773-1808. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1978.

Kuethe, Allan J. y Inglis, G. Douglas. “Absolutism and Enlightened Reform: Charles III, the Establishment of the Alcabala, and Commercial Reorganization in Cuba”. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, no. 109 (1985): 118-143.

Marrero, Leví. Cuba: Economía y sociedad, VII. Barcelona: Editorial Playor, 1978.

Mcalister, Lyle N. The “Fuero Militar” in New Spain, 1764-1800. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1957.

Mcfarlane, Anthony. Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Vila Vilar, Enriqueta, y Kuethe, Allan J., eds. Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial: nuevas perspectivas. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1999.

Walker, Geoffrey J. Spanish Politics and Imperial Trade, 1700-1789.Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1979.

Published

2016-11-19

Issue

Section

Artículos