The dimensions of inequality. Reflections from the colonial political history of the 18th century
The article presents a historiographical review of the problem of inequality in colonial Spanish America through the lenses of the eighteenth-century political history, especially in the Andean region. Unequal access to resources is viewed from the vantage point of the exercise of institutional and...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti”
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33590 |
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| Sumario: | The article presents a historiographical review of the problem of inequality in colonial Spanish America through the lenses of the eighteenth-century political history, especially in the Andean region. Unequal access to resources is viewed from the vantage point of the exercise of institutional and symbolic power and the conflicts around it. Within the general field of the social and cultural history of politics, the essay focuses on two major issues: on the one hand, political symbolism and ceremonial; on the other, the conformation in the eighteenth century of a public (or publics) spheres in relation to a key phenomenon in the late Spanish colonial world: Bourbon absolutism. |
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