Francophobia and Interimperial Politics in late Bourbon Puerto Rico: The Duke of Crillón y Mahón’s Failed Negotiations with the Spanish Crown, 1776-1796 by Jorge Luis Chinea

“…Reconstructs how Louis Balbes des Berton, or Duke of Crillón y Mahón, a Frenchman naturalized as Spaniard, attempted to persuade the Spanish Crown to grant him liberal commercial and colonizing concessions in Puerto Rico in the later 18th c. …”
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Review to Richard L. Kagan, Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; and María del Carme... by Victoria Pineda

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La reforma constitucional de la corona : (una propuesta radical y diez moderadas) by Joan Oliver Araujo

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La politique de concession de titres de Castille et de grandesses d’Espagne à La Havane entre 1759 et 1833 by Dominique Gonçalves

“…After losing Havana to the British in 1762 and recovering her from them a year later thanks to the Treaty of Paris, the Spanish Crown began to transform the city into an inexpugnable bastion, trusting a significant part of her defense to the well-settled Creole elites. …”
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Traveling Marian Images: Our Lady of Trapani between Spanish Sicily, Global Catholicism, and Imperial Aspirations by Nora Guggenbühler

“…This paper outlines the strategic fusion of legendary narratives and tangible mobility employed by viceroys, religious orders, and travelers to expand and consolidate the influence of the Catholic Church and the Spanish Crown during the Counter-Reformation.…”
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Riflessioni sulla storia economica, la politica e la fiscalità dell’impero spagnolo by Fernando Ciaramitaro

“…The aim is to reflect on the role of negotiation that arose when the Spanish crown was facing a serious crisis and needed additional funding.…”
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Anastilosis Virtual de Felipéia by Hélio Costa Lima

“…This text is about a virtual anastylosis of Felipéia, capital of Paraíba, the first city founded in Brazil under the Spanish Crown in 1585, during the Iberic Union. Recently, infographics resources enabled the reconstruction, with great precision, of the old city’s ground plans from Dutch maps from 1634-37, and establish the first hypothesis of a tridimensional configuration of the city. …”
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Portraits by Feliciano de Almeida (1635-1694) in Cosimo III de' Medici's Gallery by Flor, Susana Varela

“…During his short visit to Portugal (from 9 January to 1 March), he established contacts with the high nobles of the Portuguese court and familiarized himself with the political and economic history of Portugal, recently liberated from the Spanish Crown. In the aftermath of this visit, he commissioned fifteen portraits of the generals of the War of Restoration (1640-1668). …”
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Entre la Iglesia y el Estado: la “Concordia Facchinetti” come premessa del processo concordatario Settecentesco by Filippo Maria Troiani

“…This essay analyses the development of the relations between the Pontifical court and the Spanish crown between the end of the XVII century and the first half of the XVIII. …”
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La Trompette de la Valtoline (1623) : Écrire l’attente à la veille de la guerre franco-espagnole by Bernd Klesmann

“…Returning far back in the past, this plea in favour of an active position in the conflict against the Spanish crown shows the future action as a collective and societal project and at the same time appeals to the actual creative force of late feudal elites. …”
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Translating Native Consent in the Spanish Empire: Maya Words and Agency in Sixteenth-Century Yucatan by Caroline Cunill

“…Building on two case studies, the article explores how the Maya caciques understood the concept of consent and made use of it in concrete political negotiations with the Spanish crown in sixteenth-century Yucatan, New Spain. …”
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Los actores de reparto: distribuidores de insumos en la minería de Guanajuato en el siglo XIX by Alma Parra

“…This paper observes the changes brought over by the independence of Mexico from the Spanish crown which allowed for changes in the forms of business in mining. …”
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Law Books in the Hispanic Atlantic World: Spaces, Agents and the Consumption of Texts in the Early Modern Period by Pedro Rueda Ramírez

“…The aim is to identify the infrastructure that underpinned the transport of books from Europe to the Spanish Crown’s American territories. In addition, an analysis of the distribution spaces and characteristics of supply provides an overview of the mechanisms that operated in the market for law books in the early modern period. …”

Roberto Fontana art agent in Milan and the collection of Francesco I d’Este by Odette D’Albo

“…In the paper is put in evidence the pivotal role played by Fontana as intermediary between Francesco I and the marquis of Leganès - one of the most important collectors of the Seventeenth Century- at that time in Milan as governor for the Spanish crown, to whom the duke of Modena gifted pictures by Guido Reni and Guercino.…”
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An Empire of Networks: The Political Economy of the Habsburgs in the Caribbean (1492–1556) by Montserrat Cachero, Paula Rodríguez-Modroño

“…Based on an original dataset comprising more than five hundred prerogatives granted by the Spanish Crown, this article applies network analysis to reconstruct and map the concession of privileges by the Habsburg monarchy during the first half of the 16th century. …”
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Law Books in the Hispanic Atlantic World: Spaces, Agents and the Consumption of Texts in the Early Modern Period by Pedro Rueda Ramírez

“…The aim is to identify the infrastructure that underpinned the transport of books from Europe to the Spanish Crown’s American territories. In addition, an analysis of the distribution spaces and characteristics of supply provides an overview of the mechanisms that operated in the market for law books in the early modern period. …”
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Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s) by Andrés Estefane

“…The purpose of this chronology is to place the first republican scientific efforts in a broad time horizon, linking them with the proto-statistical researches ordered by the Spanish Crown during the second half of the eighteenth century. …”
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Indígenas, Borbones y enclaves coloniales. Las relaciones interétnicas en el fuerte San José durante su primera década de funcionamiento (Chubut, 1779-1789) by Silvana Buscaglia

“…In the late 18th century, the Spanish Crown implemented the plan of colonization of the Patagonian Atlantic coast. …”
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Delimitation of Diplomatic Spaces: Jurisdictional Conflicts and Triumphal Entries in Spanish Milan of the Counter-Reformation by Stéphane Miglierina

“…The figure of Juan Fernández de Velasco, Duke of Frias (1550-1613), governor of Milan, the representative of the Spanish crown in Lombardy, questions the link between diplomatic office and cultural development in Milan, in the bellicose era of the Counter-Reformation. …”
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Sacrificio di sé e idea di stato in Balthazar de Ayala by Davide Dainese

“…The paper aims to explore the theme of self-sacrifice in Balthzar de Ayala, a Brabant judge of the second half of the 16th century in the service of the Spanish Crown. Ayala is on the whole a marginal figure in recent historiography and, moreover, only one work is ascribed to him: De iure et officiis bellicis et disciplina militari. …”
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