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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Autor principal:	Nelson Fernando González Martínez
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Lenguaje:	EN FR PT
Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017
Materias:	Atlantic World Circulation of Information Correos Mayores communication history of mail early modern world Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b5b03c80185043499a17fd55bfb61e942021-12-02T10:30:18ZComunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.71527https://doaj.org/article/b5b03c80185043499a17fd55bfb61e942017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/71527https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The 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).Nelson Fernando González MartínezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleAtlantic WorldCirculation of InformationCorreos Mayorescommunicationhistory of mailearly modern worldAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2017)
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description	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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title	Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
title_short	Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
title_full	Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
title_fullStr	Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
title_full_unstemmed	Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
title_sort	comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: la instalación de los correos mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)
publisher	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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Comunicarse a pesar de la distancia: La instalación de los Correos Mayores y los flujos de correspondencia en el mundo hispanoamericano (1501-1640)

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