Endow, build, connect. Stories about the Bourbon monarchy's rule in Spain, Tucumán, and the Río de la Plata (1700–1809)

Griselda Tarragó; Martín A. Gentinetta; Rafael Guerrero Elecalde; María Victoria  Márquez; María Virginia  Ramos; Clara Gutiérrez; María Emilia  Gordo; Ignacio Liziardi; Mariana  Piermarini; María de la Paz  Moyano

Endow, build, connect. Stories about the Bourbon monarchy's rule in Spain, Tucumán, and the Río de la Plata (1700–1809)

Authors

Griselda Tarragó (ed)

Martín A. Gentinetta (ed)

Keywords:

Bourbon monarchy - history - 18th century, Spain - politics and government - 1700-1809, South America - history - 18th century, Tucumán (Argentina) - history - 18th century, Río de la Plata - history - 18th century, colonial administration - Spanish empire, Bourbon reforms - South America, political history - colonial America, economic history - Spanish America - 18th century, social networks - colonial officials - Spanish monarchy, global history - Spanish monarchy, elites - political power - colonial America, governors - Tucumán (Argentina) - history, relations between Spain and America - 18th century, studies of the modern world - Hispanic America

Synopsis

This book, coordinated and compiled by Griselda Tarragó and Martín Gentinetta, is the first to be published in the CIFFyH Collections in its 2022 edition.

Dotar, construir, conectar. Relatos sobre el gobierno de la monarquía borbónica en España, el Tucumán y el Río de la Plata (1700-1809) (Endow, Build, Connect: Stories about the Bourbon Monarchy's Rule in Spain, Tucumán, and the Río de la Plata (1700-1809)) compiles the results of a research project that began in 2018 within the Modern History Department of the School of History (Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba).

The proposal was aimed at creating a space for production and teaching-learning that would, on the one hand, develop paths of “modernist” training specifically oriented towards the Spanish monarchy. On the other hand, it sought to conceive of an American modernity, at least in relation to the kingdoms of the Indies integrated into the monarchy.

The fundamental objective of the project, reflected in the works gathered here, has been to explore the possibility of a highly connected and integrated Old Regime world in political, territorial, and economic terms. A world where “the colonial” and “the European” merge and share histories and experiences. This perspective is reinforced by the observation of the vitality of the composite monarchy in the 18th century, as well as the inexorable presence of agencies and networks that shape it and give it meaning.

Equipping, building, and connecting are part of the CIFFyH Collections, an initiative of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center (FFyH) in conjunction with the FFyH Publications Department, which seeks to strengthen the production and dissemination of the Center's research groups' work, encourage the participation of students, graduates, and teachers in the production and circulation of knowledge, and generate institutional spaces that enable such circulation.

Chapters

Introduction. Teaching and research in the field of Modern History. Notes and experiences on the project "Towards a modern history of America: Córdoba del Tucumán and the Río de la Plata in the Spanish Monarchy... (1700-1810)"

Griselda Tarragó, Martín A. Gentinetta

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Chapter 1.
A House with Two Exits
The Government of Buenos Aires in the Secular Transition (1690–1730)

Griselda Tarragó, Rafael Guerrero Elecalde

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Chapter 2.
Two men from Vizcaya for Philip V
Governors Esteban de Urizar y Arespacochaga and Bruno Mauricio de Zavala as Bourbon agents in a territory undergoing transformation (1700-1736)

Martín A. Gentinetta, Griselda Tarragó

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Chapter 3.
The colonial merchant in the illustrated project by Alonso Carrió de la Vandera (Lima, 1775)

María Victoria Márquez

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Chapter 4.
The political behavior of the elite of Córdoba during the transition from colonial to revolutionary order
practices, conflicts, and realignments

María Virginia Ramos

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Chapter 5.
Lebaniego and mountain folk in the River Plate region (1740-1775). Case study: Gerónimo Matorras in the service of the Monarchy

Clara Gutiérrez

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Chapter 6
"and trust them as you would your own people from Castile..."1 Strategies and access to public office by Genoese communities in Buenos Aires under the reign of Philip V (1700-1745)

María Emilia Gordo

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Chapter 7
"and trust them as you would your own people from Castile..."1 Strategies and access to public office by Genoese communities in Buenos Aires under the reign of Philip V (1700-1745)

Ignacio Liziardi

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Chapter 8
The power and influence of Queen Elizabeth Farnese. An intimate look through her letters (1744-1746)

Mariana Piermarini

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Chapter 9
Cities, towns, and villages in the Spanish Monarchy
a historiographical overview of their formation processes in the American territories

María de la Paz Moyano

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