BOOK: Juan JIMÉNEZ CASTILLO, La Monarquía Indiana de Carlos II en la encrujiada. La reconfiguración del poder virreinal en el Perú (1674-1689) [Avisos de Flandes, ed. Werner THOMAS; 21] (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024), 578 p. ISBN 9789462704084 [OPEN ACCESS]

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Abstract:

At the end of the 17th century, Spanish America was not yet in the throes of the crisis that would lead to the decadence of its Empire. This book unravels the causes and consequences of the political changes carried out by Carlos II in one of the most powerful kingdoms of his patrimony: Peru. This book shows, from a hitherto unexamined perspective, how Hispanic America was a forerunner in the reforms of the viceregal courts, which in turn reshaped the paradigm of government and interaction of the distant kingdoms. From then on, the Hispanic Monarchy shifted its interests towards America, in a reorganisation of its territories that led it not only to fight for its resilience, but also to strengthen its leading role in the international politics it had inherited from the Bourbon dynasty.

On the author:

Juan Jiménez Castillo is a postdoctoral researcher FWO at KU Leuven and a member of the Instituto Universitario “La Corte en Europa”. He holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, specialising in the study of the American viceregal courts during the reign of Carlos II.

Consult the book in open access here.