Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)

Even after the passing of the ‘Free Trade’ acts in Europe and America between 1765 and 1803, colonisation still meant trade for European mercantile and maritime powers which were beginning to think of themselves as liberal in the politico-economic sense. As before, the only suitable way of obtaining profits appeared to be economic exploitation, albeit within a politico-institutional structure. This ideal had inspired the inflexible system that had dominated the relations of both Spain and Portugal with their respective transatlantic colonies. Likewise, ever since their first incursions into the New World, northern Europeans had encouraged the creation of commercial companies dedicated to monopolising any of the goods that colonies might possibly have to offer. Dutch, English and French merchants developed farreaching private and state programmes designed to direct trade and colonisation and to encourage the populating of the new lands. During the seventeenth century, some of these companies achieved considerable success. They were able to settle, with or without permission from the Spanish monarchy, in territories formally under Spanish control, such as Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, coastal Venezuela or Guiana, regarded as areas eminently suited to business projects.

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“Of Experience, Zeal, and Selflessness”: Military Officers as Viceroys in Early Eighteenth Century Spanish America

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1353/tam.2012.0022 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 317-345 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Military Service ◽

Spanish America ◽

Military Officers ◽

Military Officer ◽

Royal Authority ◽

New Granada ◽

Early Eighteenth Century ◽

Administrative Experience

On February 18, 1724, field marshal Antonio Manso Maldonado arrived in New Granada as the president, governor, and captain-general of the New Kingdom. He had been appointed to this position on December 4, 1723, because both the crown and the Chamber of the Indies thought it would be best executed by a military officer. Manso Maldonado could boast more than 30 years of military service, proven loyalty, and administrative experience, much of it during the first reign of Felipe V. After joining the royal armies as a private, Manso Maldonado rose steadily through the ranks, fighting the Moors in Ceuta and the French in the wars of the late seventeenth century. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he served at the orders of the militant bishop of Murcia and last viceroy of Valencia, Luis Belluga, who praised Manso's valor directly to the king. Most important perhaps, at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession and upon the occupation of Catalonia by Bourbon forces, Manso Maldonado had served as teniente de rey in Gerona (1716-1719) and Barcelona (1719-1723), witnessing first-hand the implementation of the Nueva Planta and the enforcement of royal authority over the rebellious principality.

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Vipers under the altar cloths: satanic and angelic forms in seventeenth-century New Granada

Angels, Demons and The New World ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139023870.009 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 146-168

Author(s):

Andrew Redden

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

New Granada

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“OF EXPERIENCE, ZEAL, AND SELFLESSNESS”: Military Officers as Viceroys in Early Eighteenth Century Spanish America

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/s0003161500001267 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 68 (03) ◽

pp. 317-345

Author(s):

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Military Service ◽

Spanish America ◽

Military Officers ◽

Military Officer ◽

Royal Authority ◽

New Granada ◽

Early Eighteenth Century ◽

Administrative Experience

On February 18, 1724, field marshal Antonio Manso Maldonado arrived in New Granada as the president, governor, and captain-general of the New Kingdom. He had been appointed to this position on December 4, 1723, because both the crown and die Chamber of the Indies thought it would be best executed by a military officer. Manso Maldonado could boast more than 30 years of military service, proven loyalty, and administrative experience, much of it during the first reign of Felipe V. After joining the royal armies as a private, Manso Maldonado rose steadily through the ranks, fighting the Moors in Ceuta and the French in the wars of die late seventeenth century. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he served at the orders of the militant bishop of Murcia and last viceroy of Valencia, Luis Belluga, who praised Manso's valor directly to the king. Most important perhaps, at the end of die War of the Spanish Succession and upon the occupation of Catalonia by Bourbon forces, Manso Maldonado had served as teniente de rey in Gerona (1716-1719) and Barcelona (1719-1723), witnessing first-hand the implementation of the Nueva Planta and the enforcement of royal authority over the rebellious principality.

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“Of Experience, Zeal, and Selflessness”: Military Officers as Viceroys in Early Eighteenth Century Spanish America

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/s0003161500006489 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 68 (03) ◽

pp. 317-345 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Military Service ◽

Spanish America ◽

Military Officers ◽

Military Officer ◽

Royal Authority ◽

New Granada ◽

Early Eighteenth Century ◽

Administrative Experience

On February 18, 1724, field marshal Antonio Manso Maldonado arrived in New Granada as the president, governor, and captain-general of the New Kingdom. He had been appointed to this position on December 4, 1723, because both the crown and the Chamber of the Indies thought it would be best executed by a military officer. Manso Maldonado could boast more than 30 years of military service, proven loyalty, and administrative experience, much of it during the first reign of Felipe V. After joining the royal armies as a private, Manso Maldonado rose steadily through the ranks, fighting the Moors in Ceuta and the French in the wars of the late seventeenth century. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he served at the orders of the militant bishop of Murcia and last viceroy of Valencia, Luis Belluga, who praised Manso's valor directly to the king. Most important perhaps, at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession and upon the occupation of Catalonia by Bourbon forces, Manso Maldonado had served as teniente de rey in Gerona (1716-1719) and Barcelona (1719-1723), witnessing first-hand the implementation of the Nueva Planta and the enforcement of royal authority over the rebellious principality.

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