Colonial Loyalties : celebrating the Spanish monarchy in eighteenth-century Lima / María Soledad Barbón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbón, María Soledad, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Lima (Peru)--Social life and customs--History--18th century.

Lima (Peru).

Peru--Relations--Spain--History--18th century.

Peru.

Spain--Colonies--Social life and customs--History--18th century.

Spain.

Spain--Relations--Peru--History--18th century.

Peru--Lima.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Colonial Loyalties is an insightful study of how Lima's residents engaged in civic festivities in the eighteenth century. Scholarship on festive culture in colonial Latin America has largely centered on 'fiestas' as an ideal medium through which the colonizing Iberians naturalized their power. María Soledad Barbón contends that this perspective addresses only one side of the equation, demonstrating how colonial festivals, in addition to reaffirming the power of the monarch and that of his viceroy, opened up opportunities for his subjects. Civic festivities were a means for the populace to strengthen and renegotiate their relationship with the Crown. They also provided the city's inhabitants with a chance to voice their needs and to define their position within colonial society, reasserting their key position in the Spanish empire with respect to other competing cities in the Americas."-- Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268106478

0268106479