The Literature of Spanish America. 1. The Colonial Period

Hispania ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Reedy ◽  
Angel Flores
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America

Gaceta de Guatemala in the Colonial Period

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Poupeney Hart
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
Political Turmoil

Gaceta de Guatemala is the name of a newspaper spanning four series and published in Central America before the region’s independence from Spain. As one of the first newspapers to appear in Spanish America on a periodical basis, the initial series (1729–1731) was inspired by its Mexican counterpart (Gaceta de México) and thus it adopted a strong local and chronological focus. The title resurfaced at the end of the 18th century thanks to the printer and bookseller Ignacio Beteta who would assure its continuity until 1816. The paper appeared as a mainly news-oriented publication (1793–1796), only to be reshaped and energized by a small group of enlightened men close to the university and the local government (1797–1807). In an effort to galvanize society along the lines of the reforms promoted by the Bourbon regime, and to engage in a dialogue with readers beyond the borders of the capital city of Guatemala, they relied on a vast array of sources (authorized and censored) and on a journalistic model associated with the British Spectator: it allowed them to explore different genres and a wide variety of topics, while also allowing the paper to fulfill its role as an official and practical news channel. The closure of the Economic Society which had been the initial motor for the third series, and the failure to attract or retain strong contributors led slowly to the journal’s social irrelevance. It was resurrected a year after ceasing publication, to address the political turmoil caused by the Napoleonic invasion of the Peninsula and to curb this event’s repercussions overseas. These circumstances warranted a mainly news-oriented format, which prevailed in the following years. The official character of the paper was confirmed in 1812 when it appeared as the Gaceta del Gobierno de Guatemala, a name with which it finally ended publication (1808–1816).

Death, Distance, and Bureaucracy: An Archival Story

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Sellers-García
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
The Creation

This chapter in two parts considers several legal cases from Spanish America. It argues that geographic distance shaped the pace of proceedings and created bureaucratic distances critical to case outcomes. Geographic distance also shaped document trajectories, influencing how they would be stored and where they would come to rest. Archivists, both in the colonial period and since then, are the vital mediators of these many forms of distance. They were vital to the creation of document content, they determined which documents survived, and they make choices today that influence location and access. The cases being examined are from Guatemala and Mexico; they are drawn from both inquisition files and the secular criminal courts; they take place between 1698 and 1718. All the cases focus on the crimes and perceived transgressions of non-white women: witchcraft, murder, and adultery.

The Literature of Spanish America. I: The Colonial Period

Books Abroad ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
James R. Browne ◽  
Angel Flores
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America

scholarly journals UNA DE CAL Y OTRA DE ARENA: BUILDING COMPARABLE REAL WAGES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Allen ◽  
Tommy E. Murphy ◽  
Eric B. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Standards Of Living

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses some of the criticisms recently raised by Rafael Dobado-González about our work on real wages in the Americas in the long run. Although addressing a series of issues, Dobado mainly questions our use of the welfare ratio methodology to assess standards of living in colonial Spanish America. In this article we explain how, despite its limitations, this methodology provides a solid, transparent metric to compare economic development across space and time. In particular, welfare ratios present more economically relevant information on living standards than the commodity wages that Dobado prefers (Dobado González and García Montero 2014). We argue that Dobado fails to offer convincing evidence against our findings; hence, we stand by these results, which suggest that the divergence between North and Latin America began early in the colonial period.

scholarly journals The Literature of Spanish America, Vol. I, The Colonial Period

1968 ◽  
Vol 34 (65) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America

Counter-Contraband in Spanish America Handicaps of the Governors in the Indies

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Earl Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America

Royal officials of the Indies found the contraband trade one of the most critical and debilitating problems in their administration of Spanish America. Contraband existed throughout the colonial period, despite occasional strenuous efforts to stamp it out. Various ideas have been advanced to explain the failure of Spanish counter-contraband in America, and these largely reflect on the quality of Spanish administration of the Indies. The implication is that governors and royal officials were generally guilty of corruption, of passive or active connivance in the contraband trade, or, at the very least, of incompetence or inefficiency in preventing it.

Labour in the Colonial Mining Industry of Honduras

1982 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-203
Author(s):  
Linda Newson
Keyword(s):  
Indian Population ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Gold Production ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Silver Mining

Gold and silver production in Honduras probably never exceeded 5% of that produced in Spanish America at any one time during the colonial period, but it was of considerable importance to the local economy and employed a significant proportion of the total workforce. In Spanish America as a whole the types of labour that were employed in mining were extremely varied. During the early Conquest period Indian slaves were used to pan gold in the Antilles, and later Mexican silver mining relied on the employment of free labour supplemented by that of Indian and Negro slaves. In Colombia the repartimiento provided Indians for mining up to 1729, by which time the Indian population and gold production had declined, but in Peru the mita continued to supply labour for the mines until its abolition in 1812, although by that time the mines had become heavily dependent on free labour. The dominant type of labour employed in mining in any one area at any one time appears to have been strongly influenced by the availability of Indian labour, which was largely determined by the size of the Indian population and the number of competing demands for labour, and by the profitability of mining, which determined the ability of miners to overcome shortages of labour. These influences were very apparent in the mining industry in Honduras, where during the colonial period many different types of labour were employed: Indian slaves, Indians working in the service of encomenderos, Negro slaves, Spanish immigrant workers, Indians working under the repartimiento and free labourers.

Periodicals for Women in Mexico During the Nineteenth Century

1957 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Jane Herrick
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Mexican Society ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
San Luis Potosí

Colonial Spanish America would have found the idea of publishing a periodical directed toward a feminine audience alien. Yet the colonial period was not long over when such periodicals began to appear in Mexico. Typical of those published in the period 1841–1855 were El Semanario de las señoritas mejicanas (3 vols.; México, 1841–1842) and La Semana de las señoritas mejicanas (5 vols.; México, 1851–1852). They have been examined in detail to determine what appeal the fledglings tried to make to Mexican society. El Album mexicano (2 vols.; México, 1849), La Camelia (México, 1853), El Album de las señoritas potosinas (San Luis Potosí, 1865) and, as examples of a later type, El Album de la mujer (Mexico, 1883–1890) and El Correo de las señoras (México, 1883–1893) have been used to supplement the information. While none of them achieved the success of Godey’s Lady’s Book which by 1860 claimed a circulation of 150,000, they did show that in the nineteenth century some publishers in Mexico were concerned with woman’s edification, education, and entertainment through reading.

Diets, Food Supplies and the African Slave Trade in Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish America

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda A. Newson ◽  
Susie Minchin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Common People ◽  
African Slave ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Common

Much has been written about the spread of Old World crops and livestock in the Americas. However, very little is known, except in very general terms, about the availability of different foods, diets and nutrition, particularly among the common people, in different regions of Spanish America in the early colonial period. This derives in part from the shortage of evidence, but it also reflects the difficulties of researching these complex issues, where environmental conditions, access to land and labor, income distribution, regulation of food supplies and prices, as well as food traditions, all interact.

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