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ESPINOSA FERNANDEZ, José Manuel. Militarism, expenditure and subversion of the colonial rule in Puerto Rico during the Bourbon Reforms (1765-1815). memorias [online]. 2010, n.13, pp.39-66. ISSN 1794-8886.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Spanish Crown will embark on an ambitious agenda of reforms. The aim will be to strengthen the role of the State, to reclaim power positions, especially necessary in the colonies. In these places, the metropolitan control is attenuated at the hands of some increasingly powerful oligarchies. However, an expected full-scale government offensive was seriously nuanced in some parts of the Monarchy. The continuous wars draw a new landscape, where the new colonial policy could be applied, especially in the so called strongholds of the empire. Thus, places like Puerto Rico are in a context of rising militarization and at a expenditure that threatens to ruin the Royal Treasury. The precariousness of the role of the State will continuously fall at the mercy of people who are the only able to sustain it.

Palavras-chave : Puerto Rico; Bourbon Reforms; situados; XVIII century.

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