Dependencia Latinoamericana

POLS1007 Lecture The Latin American Independence

Agricultural spain – big Spain

Warfare knights.

War of Succession – Bourbon – Philip of Anjou, Treaty of Utrecht 1713

Seven year’s war –France looses Canada , Spain looses Havana for a period and Manila.

Bourbon reforms
Spanish posessions- try to use their possession of empire to fix their economic situation.
Replacing creolebureaucracy with Spanish
bringing more indigenous community into the tax network.
Prohibiting commodities that compete with Spain
expulsion of Jesuits in 1767, power of church reduced.Criollos different interests. Wealthy early. Engaged in trade, merchant activity.
They wanted to have the political control. They started to take over the public life, because they attempt to bring morewealth into the colonies. However, Spain replaced them to have an outcome market orientated to sell all the Spanish production where it can only be sold and by the force. That’s it, the Americas.They wanted to access to the wealth the Church had been collected by order of the country. Tensions grow up between the new colonial state and the church, specially at the low levels.


TheOpposition to the new colonial order.

Criollos will be the economic elite who opposes them. Túpac Amaru, in 1780 and José Antonio Galán, comunero revolt in 1781 Colombia.

Class and caste in the warsfor independence
The perception of treating well the indigenous people start to change, specially with the slave trade. In 18 century golden age of slavery. The economic changes happening in Americastart to change the idea of the rights of people, people can be socially mobile by making money. They start to develop a hierarchical system that can combine with the news ideas spread from the Western, like the French revolution, related with the skin colour. Therefore, they mix all the constitutional rights set in Europe as a movement for the change, but they find the way to still justify the...