The Bourbons Restructure New Spain PDF

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Printed by: [email protected]. Printing is for personal, private use only. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted without publisher's prior permission. Violators will be prosecuted. Cl-tAPTER 13 THE BOURBONS RESTRUCTURE NEW SPAIN EARLY BOURBO REFORMS The nadn ofSpain's fommcs by the late.sevcnte rnnuy wa.s no· rhere better exemplified than in th p on ofth king h' I. lnh ting lh th n in 166S at four, """''~lui.:.i U was feeble. in mind as wtll as body and was evm in marurity dearly inmmpct£:n tO ru1e. Tms wretched. king, called in al I kind n - Hechw.1do, the Bewitched., ~ sou - ht d peratdy in off moments to hang hlmsili ~'1th his bed.doth.. Wb.il exorcists tri to driVl! out his devil. adviscrs made policy of sons. Ch.ad was th I o h Haps u:rgs. and th.....-all. j abi ooncern o :the matter of sue sion. Despite two maniages, the. king did not &ire. an beiL \iVho, then, would rul the ish m ir after his antidpa1cd ear y demi %en, as now, lh r was comid i:abl interma ~ amon the various royal famili of urope, and r Jati floated. lheir p retensions.to th:c Spanish l!bmne. In the end the Austrian and French factions emerged th two tr n claimants and th ir diploma red or y , Fm 11 , as Char, U's days grew s'.on, he named as his.successor Philip of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XJV of f-rance ne of pani&h Bourbons began in 17 with the ruJe:of PhiUp {1701 6). The Austri n party and - aUi.contJ d Phili ' in durins the long W r of th parush S ccession (1701 - 13), but the final ou100m saw the Bourbons established m Spain. Philip inhe, led debili ted p ~ed by foreign w nd in1:emal revol. Even as he was for:clcd to de.vote resources to the on§oing war, the new king began to take mea- sures to pot Spain on a finner admi:n ·natiw and :financial footing. He applied many of t:l:re dmini trauv polki tha 0th r Bourl:>ons h.a.d us din franc nd h" centralization of authority proved effective in some areas. An immediate concern \\'l!S the strengthening of th pa:nish rmy and navy. Philip undertook a program of rebabili tion. with som u He th~ tumed to the int.emal economy in which prod _ _ivi:ty had languished for much of the previous cmtmy, at least until the 1670s when agricuhnral yiclds and commei:ce showed m d st growth. leavily in bted to foreign , much of p in's trad with th co.lo- nies was in the bands of non-Spanish mer-ch.ams. Furthermore. sHve.r re.rnittanrns to the 197 Printed by: [email protected]. Printing is for personal, private use only. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted without publisher's prior permission. Violators will be prosecuted.  198 I l!: FORM A ' D ll!LA CT I N d 1h of Lb w.1{.,rtwu kl11& Im- 111 1 p D h 11 m l. in had Jc Hncd tluou hout th.,, cm cnth c: mur; , ct that mining ~conomy bad begun to bounc.:-. back.after 1670. h' nl rinR rt pam, Philip xi ~ hi rues wi g l.he:ir e. for th financial th empir and a compcrumLion for lcr.ritorial I ne o h" finl measure h Printed by: [email protected]. Printing is for personal, private use only. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted without publisher's prior permission. Violators will be prosecuted.  a pohued lh Du p in. ·nt.rustl!.d ,; th tl1 tas o dislodgtn minaled the silver trade, die i rn q lh syb n hi ll rt.s, h ~lli~. Phi eel trade to u bl m d w~~ ~ili ing when m ' , h.ld in the mon 1 ' I op at a,-in)l; d an. - ed liuJe po· - di merchants and! cnnsumets. uld fn: hi and,·. thdl fl u.nul j ~ , Al h 1.haa: loniaJ economic reforms , ~e.re modest en ges gnaled dte mm , t pm call undenook.a tong tom t ·ufonn tlon tbal 1 d L _ Th Bomb n.s d Lclmine