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Author Barbón, María Soledad, author

Title Colonial loyalties : celebrating the Spanish monarchy in eighteenth-century Lima / María Soledad Barbón
Published Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Introduction. Celebrating the Spanish Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Lima -- The Politics of Praise -- Discourses of Loyalty -- Staging the Incas -- Epilogue. From the “Very Noble and Loyal” to the “Heroic City of the Free”
Summary "Colonial Loyalties is an insightful study of how Lima's residents engaged in civic festivities in the eighteenth century. Scholarship on festive culture in colonial Latin America has largely centered on "fiestas" as an ideal medium through which the colonizing Iberians naturalized their power. María Soledad Barbón contends that this perspective addresses only one side of the equation. Barbón relies on unprecedented archival research and a wide range of primary sources, including festival narratives, poetry, plays, speeches, and the official and unofficial records of Lima's city council, to explain the level at which residents and institutions in Lima were invested in these rituals. Colonial Loyalties demonstrates how colonial festivals, in addition to reaffirming the power of the monarch and that of his viceroy, opened up opportunities for his subjects. Civic festivities were a means for the populace to strengthen and renegotiate their relationship with the Crown. They also provided the city's inhabitants with a chance to voice their needs and to define their position within colonial society, reasserting their key position in the Spanish empire with respect to other competing cities in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2019)
Subject Municipal ceremonial -- Peru -- Lima -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
International relations
Manners and customs
Municipal ceremonial
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT Lima (Peru) -- Social life and customs -- History -- 18th century
Spain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs -- History -- 18th century
Peru -- Relations -- Spain -- History -- 18th century
Spain -- Relations -- Peru -- History -- 18th century
Subject Peru
Peru -- Lima
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780268106485
0268106487
9780268106478
0268106479