Title Administrators of empire / edited by Mark A. Burkholder

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, map Series Routledge revivals Expanding world ; volume 22 Routledge revivals. Expanding world ; v. 22. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 Authority and Flexibility in the Spanish Imperial Bureaucracy; 2 Bureaucrats; 3 The Sale of Fiscal Offices and the Decline of Royal Authority in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1633-1700; 4 Creole Appointments and the Sale of Audiencia Positions in the Spanish Empire under the Early Bourbons, 1701-1750; 5 Elites and Cadres in Bourbon Chile; 6 Government and Elite in Late Colonial Mexico; 7 Intendants and Cabildos in the Viceroyalty of La Plata, 1782-1810 8 Magistracy and Society in Colonial Brazil9 Army and Empire: English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569-1763; 10 Governors or Generals? A Note on Martial Law and the Revolution of 1689 in English America; 11 Sir Thomas Lawrence, Secretary of Maryland: A Royal Placeman's Fortunes in America; 12 Politics in New Hampshire under Governor Benning Wentworth, 1741-1767; 13 Customs and Contentions: John Hatton of Salem and Cohansey, 1764-1776; 14 Colonial Civil Servant and Counter-revolutionary: Thomas Irving (17387-1800) in Boston, Charleston, and London 15 Jonathan Duncan: A Lesson in Administrative Survival16 Politics, Patronage, and the Imperial Interest: Charles de Beauhamais's Disputes with Gilles Hocquart; Index Summary Published in 1998, the expansion of Europe overseas required the creation of institutions for governing the conquered peoples, as well as the conquerors, their descendants, and later immigrants. As a group, bureaucrats were essential for the preservation of extensive and long-lasting European colonies. This volume looks in particular at the Americas and sets out the differing responses of Portugal, Spain, Britain and France and the systems they elaborated. A notable theme is the conflict between the demands of the centre, and the local pressures, and the extent to which the bureaucrats often came to identify with these Notes Originally published 1998 in the Variorum Expanding World Series by Ashgate Publishing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Colonial administrators -- America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY -- General. British colonies Colonial administrators Colonies -- Administration French colonies Portuguese colonies Spanish colonies SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056633 France -- Colonies -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051202 Spain -- Colonies -- Administration Portugal -- Colonies -- Administration Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History Portugal -- Colonies -- America -- Administration Subject America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Burkholder, Mark A., 1943- editor. ISBN 9780429855528 0429855524 9780429855535 0429855532 9780429457708 0429457707 9780429855511 0429855516

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