Abstract

EZEQUIEL WASSERMAN, MARTÍN LEANDRO. Credit for the Border. Institutional Negotiation, Military Coercion, and Royal Treasury Financing in the Bourbon Río de la Plata (1767-1777). Front. hist. [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.1, pp.8-44. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.660.

The Seven Years' War (1754-1763) demonstrated to the Spanish Crown the urgency to strengthen defense in strategic territories. The tension between Spain and Portugal led the Bourbon government to strengthen resources for the defense of its domains in the Rio de la Plata and to implement concordant institutional reconfigurations. In this process, a multitude of debts with local and regional actors allowed the Royal Treasury in Buenos Aires to maintain the defensive apparatus. If local commercial actors found in such financing a lucrative field, increasing fiscal resources for military purposes was a point of confluence between the objectives of the Crown, the institutional reconfiguration and the interests of local creditors. Thus, the mediation of local actors in the operation of the royal treasury would survive during the process of Bourbon institutional centralization.

Keywords : credit; fiscal order; defensive system; Royal Treasury; Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

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