TY - CHAP
T1 - Las capitanías generales de provincias estratégicas hispanoamericanas durante los reinados de Felipe V
T2 - Aproximación al perfil socio-profesional de una institución atlántica
AU - Eissa Barroso, Francisco
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the captaincies-general in Spain and Spanish America and of the profile of men appointed to these offices between 1700 and 1746. It demonstrates that Spanish American captaincies-general were usually of inferior standing and less prestige than their counterparts in Spain. However, the transition from Hapsburg to Bourbon rule and the gradual 'professionalisation' of strategic captaincies-general in the Americas transformed them into stepping stones for ambitious officers seeking social and professional promotion whose careers spanned the Spanish Atlantic. The chapter demonstrates that studying captaincies-general and the men appointed to them from a perspective that incorporates the whole Spanish world allows us to better understand the complex, and changing, relationships between different parts of early modern transoceanic empires.
AB - This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the captaincies-general in Spain and Spanish America and of the profile of men appointed to these offices between 1700 and 1746. It demonstrates that Spanish American captaincies-general were usually of inferior standing and less prestige than their counterparts in Spain. However, the transition from Hapsburg to Bourbon rule and the gradual 'professionalisation' of strategic captaincies-general in the Americas transformed them into stepping stones for ambitious officers seeking social and professional promotion whose careers spanned the Spanish Atlantic. The chapter demonstrates that studying captaincies-general and the men appointed to them from a perspective that incorporates the whole Spanish world allows us to better understand the complex, and changing, relationships between different parts of early modern transoceanic empires.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-607-544-011-8
T3 - Colección Investigaciones
SP - 111
EP - 174
BT - Élites, representación y redes atlánticas en la Hispanoamérica moderna
A2 - Eissa Barroso, Francisco
A2 - Vázquez Varela, Ainara
A2 - Espelt-Bombín, Silvia
PB - El Colegio de Michoacán
CY - Zamora, Michoacán, Mexixo
ER -