Search results
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva España [birejˈnato ðe ˈnweβa esˈpaɲa] ⓘ ), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish conquest of the Americas and having its capital in Mexico City.
- Colonial Administration and Society
- Bourbon Reforms
- Relations with The United States
- Mexican Independence
- Bibliography
In 1528 the creation of a high court, the audiencia, marked the first step in a long and ultimately incomplete effort to establish Spanish royal authority throughout the region, followed by the appointment of a viceroy in 1535 to oversee royal interests from the capital of Mexico City. Along with its southern counterpart, the viceroyalty of Peru, N...
During the second half of the eighteenth century, New Spain underwent a series of reforms implemented by the Bourbon dynasty. Spanish monarchs and their administrators attempted to overhaul the machinery of empire and revitalize royal control over the empire's American colonies. These Bourbon Reforms included the curtailment of ecclesiastical power...
After the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), Spain was forced to cede Florida to Britain but received the massive Louisiana Territory from France in return. In the interim, between 1763 and the start of the American Revolution, settlers from British colonies in North America began moving southward into Florida and westward into Louisiana. During this pe...
After Napoleon invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 1808, a crisis of political legitimacy occurred throughout Spanish America. In 1810 a parish priest, Miguel Hidalgo, initiated the independence struggle in New Spain by raising a force of peasant soldiers to wrest control of the viceroyalty from peninsular Spaniards. Thousands of indios, castas, and e...
Archer, Christon I., ed. The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780–1824.Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2003. Burkholder, Mark A., and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. 5th ed. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004. Chipman, Donald E. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821.Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Gerhard, Peter. The North Frontier of New...
People also ask
Why did the Spanish establish the Captaincy General of Guatemala?
When did Guatemala become a colonial country?
What is the history of New Spain?
When was the Kingdom of New Spain established?
The Provincias Internas, also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Internal Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
Aug 1, 1995 · The logic for a kind of parochialism in sources seems to be that colonial Guatemala “more often than not operated as an autonomous entity” (p. 258). True, possibly, in terms of polity; we nevertheless might have expected the systematic comparison that Jones, of all people, could have made between New Spain’s northern and southern frontiers.
- Oakah L. Jones
- 1994
Spanish American Independence. The humiliating defeats suffered by Spanish forces during the Seven Years War (1756–1763) included the capture by British forces of Havana, one of the economic and strategic jewels in the imperial crown. In response, the administration of Charles III (1716–1788), who ruled from 1759 to 1788, sought to increase ...
Aug 1, 1973 · In this painstakingly researched study Gerhard has constructed historical summaries for each of the 129 minor administrative jurisdictions (alcaldías mayores until 1786, partidos of the intendancies thereafter) established as subdivisions within the gobierno of New Spain (central and southern Mexico, excluding the Yucatán peninsula) from the beginning of Spanish contact in 1519 to the end of ...
Jun 8, 2019 · The region of Guatemala was a large and important state under the control of the Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) until the time of independence. Encomiendas Conquistadores and governmental officials and bureaucrats were often awarded encomiendas , large tracts of land complete with native towns and villages.
