The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century: Bureaucratic Politics in the Spanish Empire

1968 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1686
Author(s):  
Woodrow Borah ◽  
John Leddy Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Spanish Empire

scholarly journals John L. Phelan, The Kingdom of Quito in the seventeenth century. Bureaucratic politics in the Spanish Empire

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (004) ◽  
Author(s):  
Delfina E. López Sarrelangue
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University

Reseña sobre John Leddy Phelan,<em> The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century. Bureaucratic Politics in the Spanish Empire</em>. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1967.

Trade and Navigation in the Seventeenth-Century Viceroyalty of Peru

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
Maritime Economy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
General Economy

The movement of many vessels up and down the coasts of the Viceroyalty of Peru in the seventeenth century marked the existence of a lively commercial system within the Spanish Empire. In many respects, this maritime economy evolved quite apart and under different influences from the Atlantic world. The nature and dynamics of this trade and navigation within the viceroyalty's domain in this century are the subject of this brief exploration. The primary goal is to outline the major aspects of trade and navigation and describe some meaningful trends. Secondarily, a consideration of the subject seems to reveal die existence of an economy, lively, robust and expansive diat stands in sharp contrast to die ardiridc, decaying state of Spain's general economy in die seventeentii century.

Urban Decline and Regional Economies: Brabant, Castile, and Lombardy, 1550–1750

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Hollen Lees ◽  
Paul M. Hohenberg
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
City Council ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Ciudad Real ◽  
Rapid Spread

Urban troubles were endemic in early modern Europe. Not only did cities undergo sieges, conquests, and epidemics, but the rapid spread of rural protoindustrial manufacturing threatened established markets and employment patterns. The acute problems of Antwerp, captured by Spanish troops in 1685, or of Como, whose textile industry collapsed in the early seventeenth century are not isolated examples of cities in trouble. Many more could be offered. Indeed, descriptions of cities in the seventeenth century, particularly those of the Spanish Empire, stress depopulation and decay. Contemporaries saw around them scenes of urban desolation. Sir Thomas Overbury, travelling in the Spanish Netherlands around 1610, wrote of the “ruinous” towns, while visitors to Ciudad Real in Spain around 1620 noted vacant, tumbledown houses, unemployment, and urban land gone to waste (Parker 1977:253; Phillips 1979:29). After several years in which Spanish Lombardy was devastated by wars, famine, and plague, the Milan City Council complained of “the destitution of all sorts of persons and the threat of impending ruin.” Moreover, throughout the state, values of houses and landed property had allegedly plummeted (Sella 1979:57,63).

Shipbuilding in times of war: Contracts for the construction of ships and provision of supplies in the Spanish Empire in the early seventeenth century

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
José Luís Gasch-Tomás ◽  
Koldo Trápaga Monchet ◽  
Ana Rita Trindade
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
High Seas

In the early seventeenth century, the construction of galleons and high seas warships became an essential strategic concern for the king of Spain, even more so than in the previous century. In 1603, Philip III ordered the establishment of a Committee for the Building of Ships ( Junta para la Fábrica de Navíos), which signed several contracts ( asientos) with private individuals to build squadrons and ships. What were the shipbuilding conditions outlined in contracts signed under the auspices of such a committee? By addressing this question, this research note sheds light on the shipbuilding strategies of the Spanish Crown before the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609–1621). The notes are part of an ongoing research project on the Spanish Empire’s political restructuring of shipbuilding policies during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Old Habits

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-59
Author(s):  
Jesse Cromwell
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Illicit Trade ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Interimperial Trade

This chapter asks what the implicit understandings were between empire and colony for almost two hundred years before the change to Bourbon governance and an eighteenth-century period of commercial conflict. It discusses briefly how the Spanish Empire addressed smuggling in the immediate decades after Caracas’s mid-sixteenth-century founding, then moves to the seventeenth-century transition to an almost monocrop, cacao-based economy and the rise of interimperial contact that accompanied it. The chapter ends shortly before the establishment of the Caracas Company in 1728. It also includes a basic primer to the Spanish commercial system meant to give the reader a sense of exactly how illicit trade deviated from imperial guidelines. Chapter one functions as an examination of the Habsburg status quo of benign neglect that governed Venezuela from its inception until the rise of the Caracas Company. It argues that this was a colony that received little commercial support but also little outside intervention where extralegal interimperial trade was concerned.

scholarly journals The Jesuit Roots of Spanish Naval Education: Juan José Navarro’s Translation of Paul Hoste for the Academia de Guardias Marinas

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-203
Author(s):  
Marcelo Aranda
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Pedagogy ◽  
Spanish Enlightenment

Abstract From its origins in 1540 to its final expulsion in 1767, the far-flung Jesuit network of schools and scholars influenced the development of scientific and mathematical pedagogy in the Spanish Empire. The most important of these schools was the Colegio Imperial of Madrid where young noblemen and members of the Spanish court learned mathematics. Therefore, when Juan José Navarro, an early eighteenth-century Spanish naval officer and reformer, began to teach at the newly founded Academia de Guardias Marinas, he translated French Jesuit Paul Hoste’s L’Art des armées navales into a Spanish manuscript to serve as the basis of a curriculum on contemporary naval tactics. Navarro’s efforts highlight the continuity between the Jesuit science and mathematics of the seventeenth century and the emerging scientific institutions of the Spanish Enlightenment.

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