Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
The article analyzes the emergence of Correo Mayor appointments in the Spanish-American world, and demonstrates how the establishment of royal mail concessions in the Indies spearheaded the circulation of correspondence across varied distances in the empire. The paper explores the establishment of a...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/b5b03c80185043499a17fd55bfb61e94 |
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| Sumario: | The article analyzes the emergence of Correo Mayor appointments in the Spanish-American world, and demonstrates how the establishment of royal mail concessions in the Indies spearheaded the circulation of correspondence across varied distances in the empire. The paper explores the establishment of an extensive communication circuit between Seville, Madrid, Lima, Mexico, Guatemala and other cities, and interrogates how the actions of officially-appointed Correos Mayores, their lieutenants, and other agents acted as communicative poles that enabled the distribution of correspondence across the globe. The model become highly perfectible and included the widespread employment of non-officials, a facet that Castilian monarchs never sanctioned as an illegal practice. The paper argues that from the 16th century onwards, "American" versions of royal concessions of the Correo Mayor became a strategy to confront and solve the vast distance that resulted from Europe's connection with the "enormous" New World (and vice versa). |
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