El Imperial Colegio de Santa Cruz y las aves de rapiña: una modesta contribución a la microfísica del poder a mediados del siglo XVI
The brutal decline of the Imperial Colegio de Santa Cruz, after a bright but brief career, has spurred many papers and reflections. This one focuses on the economic factors, frequently ignored, that participated in its ruin. Indeed, the Colegio was stripped of its most precious assets by a few indiv...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Spanish |
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El Colegio de México, A.C.
2014
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| Online Access: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/27 |
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Historia Mexicana |
| Summary: | The brutal decline of the Imperial Colegio de Santa Cruz, after a bright but brief career, has spurred many papers and reflections. This one focuses on the economic factors, frequently ignored, that participated in its ruin. Indeed, the Colegio was stripped of its most precious assets by a few individuals belonging to the rising oligarchy of original settlers and conquerors' descendants, supported in turn by the highest authorities' --Real Audiencia, Real Hacienda, and even the viceroy Luis de Velasco the Elder, with whom they held family ties-- disregard and/or passive, or even active, complicity. |
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