HIST 015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Bourbon Reforms, Deindustrialization, Class Conflict
Document Summary
Chaos and decline: from wealth to poverty two factors helped cause decline: de-industrialization political instability. But latin america was not occupied, for a while, by imperialist powers. Latin american elites saw themselves as euro-americans informal imperialism: intervention when necessary. The spanish american empire: sources of centuries of political stability. Spanish america was treated like kingdoms, not colonies the establishment of european society in america. American spaniards participatory government, although not democratic government royal government city government village government patria: homeland, local society, dominated by a city or cities ties to the king of spain, not to spain popular sovereignty. European wars cut spanish america off from spain. 1808: overthrow of the spanish king by napoleon. 1808: overthrow of spanish viceroy in mexico by european spaniards revolution in mexico: race war and class war rebellion in south america local elites seize power taxes on indians abolished.
