Viceroys without Superintendencias. Bourbon reform or Gálvez’s personal project?

Cúneo S.B. · Revista de Indias (2024) · DOI: 10.3989/revindias.2024.010

Resumen

Most studies of the Hispanic monarchy in the 18th century consider the creation of the superintendencias of the royal Exchequer, separate from the viceroys of the Indies, to be a reform aimed at improving the administration of colonial revenues. Moreover, this reform was part of the project to introduce the system of intendencias in America. This article argues that this provision did not respond to a Bourbon reform objective, but to the personal policy of the influential José de Gálvez. Gálvez‘s intention had been present since his general inspection to New Spain in 1765 and materialised once he was appointed Secretary of the Indies. Copyright:

Instituciones: Universidad de Piura