RT Journal Article
T1 A global postal service: Empire, reform and conflict in the Spanish Atlantic in the 18th century
A1 Moreno Cabanillas, Rocío
K1 Atlantic World
K1 History of mail
K1 Bourbon reforms
K1 Global history
K1 Colonial Spanish America
K1 Early modern world
K1 Circulation of information
AB In the 18th century there was a general interest in the overseas European empires to institutionalize the postal system. The Spanish Monarchy, under the paradigm of the Bourbon Reforms, promoted a project to reform the Spanish-American mail in the second half of the 18th century with the aim of making overseas communications more organized and regular. However, these plans for renewal came up against limits and power struggles between different agents interested in the circulation of information. This is reflected in the postal administration of Cartagena de Indias, which was a fundamental nucleus for the Crown where the interests of the different local and global powers converged, and where the difficulty of dominating the Spanish empire can be seen. This article analyses the contradictions and discrepancies of the postal reform project, examining it in a polycentric key through the communications node of the city of Cartagena de Indias.
PB Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22853
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22853
LA en
NO Moreno Cabanillas, R. (2019). A global postal service: Empire, reform and conflict in the Spanish Atlantic in the 18th century. Ciencia Nueva, Revista De Historia Y Política, 3(1), 93–111
NO Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía
DS RIO
RD Apr 23, 2026