Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

Chiovelli, Giorgio; Fergusson, Leopoldo; Martinez, Luis; Torres, Juan David; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4545407

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Encomienda and The Construction Of The Local State1

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“…The Audiencia was the Spanish Crown's main colonial tribunal of justice. 9 Two centuries later, Spain's Bourbon reforms tried again to take power from the creole elite by reorganizing corregimientos into larger, more professional intendencias (Chiovelli et al 2022). 10 Unfortunately, data that would allow us to identify separate encomienda and corregidor effects on long-run development are simply not available.…”

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Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Long-Run Development in Colombia

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2024

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Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Long-Run Development in Colombia

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Infrastructures of race? Colonial indigenous segregation and contemporary land values

Baldomero-Quintana,

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De la Rosa-Ramos

2025

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Current Debates about the Colonial Economy and Government from the Spanish Royal Treasury Records

Klein

2023

Hispanic American Historical Review

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This essay surveys both the traditional findings and new debates that have used the Spanish imperial royal financial accounts to analyze the colonial economy and government. The crisis of the seventeenth century, the relations between colonial elites and royal government, the impact of income transfers among treasury offices, the sale of offices, the system of voluntary loans, the eighteenth-century reforms, and the influence of the tax system on the evolution of the colonial economy and society have all created a new set of questions and debates that historians, economists, and political scientists have engaged in. There is both consensus and disagreement on what these numbers mean for various groups in the society as well as long-term institutional developments. Just as new approaches have opened up new area for research, there is also a great deal of unexplored topics that can be developed using the unpublished primary accounts.

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Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Long-Run Development in Colombia

Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Long-Run Development in Colombia

Infrastructures of race? Colonial indigenous segregation and contemporary land values

Current Debates about the Colonial Economy and Government from the Spanish Royal Treasury Records

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