Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Map and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Viceregal Institution in the Spanish World under the Habsburgs -- Northern South America at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century -- Reform under the First Bourbon: The Dawn of the Administrative Monarchy -- Giulio Alberoni, Reform through the Vía Reservada and the First Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada -- Two Architects and Faulty Foundations? Explaining the Suppression of the First Viceroyalty of New Granada -- The Viceroy’s Subjects: New Granada under the First Viceroyalty -- The End of Reform? José Patiño and New Granada’s Government between 1724 and 1739 -- The Council of Indies and the War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Second Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada -- Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Back Matter -- Archival Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso’s The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) argues that the pace and character of the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America in the early eighteenth century were determined by relations between New Granadan elites and authorities in Spain, reflected changes in European geopolitical configurations, and echoed the aims behind innovation in the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time, the book stresses the hierarchical and asymmetrical nature of interactions across the empire and the importance of changes affecting the central administration of the monarchy. Voices from across the Spanish world reached Madrid but were often manipulated to the benefit of competing factions at court.

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