Algunas editoriales de centros de investigación se imponen, cada cierto tiempo, el desafío de publicar textos de difusión que —usando un lenguaje claro al limitar el uso de tecnicismos— sinteticen los últimos adelantos de las investigaciones científicas y los acerquen a un amplio número de lectores. Este es el caso de la colección Historias Mínimas publicada por El Colegio de México, uno de los proyectos editoriales recientes con más éxito. Siguiendo este ejemplo, entre otros, el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos ha lanzado su colección de historias mínimas de los departamentos del Perú, siendo el primer volumen la Historia mínima de Arequipa, escrito al alimón por Mario Meza y Víctor Condori.

Algunas editoriales de centros de investigación se imponen, cada cierto tiempo, el desafío de publicar textos de difusión que —usando un lenguaje claro al limitar el uso de tecnicismos— sinteticen los últimos adelantos de las investigaciones científicas y los acerquen a un amplio número de lectores. Este es el caso de la colección Historias Mínimas publicada por El Colegio de México, uno de los proyectos editoriales recientes con más éxito. Siguiendo este ejemplo, entre otros, el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos ha lanzado su colección de historias mínimas de los departamentos del Perú, siendo el primer volumen la Historia mínima de Arequipa, escrito al alimón por Mario Meza y Víctor Condori.

The Spanish-American colonies reacted in defense of King Ferdinand VII during the French invasion of Spain in 1808. The events that followed in 1808-1810 exposed the contradictions within the colonial system. In this paper I assess Arequipa’s reaction in this context particularly its Cabildo, which must be understood in connection with the events in neighboring cities—Cuzco, Puno, La Paz, and Potosí—and in the centers of political power—Lima, Chuquisaca, and Buenos Aires. I argue that the loyalism of Arequipa’s population was a strategy to gain autonomy and defend its regional interests while avoiding conflict at the local level. An array of possibilities emerged in that period, as a result of which Spanish-American societies, led by their ruling circles, decided their future.

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The Spanish-American colonies reacted in defense of King Ferdinand VII during the French invasion of Spain in 1808. The events that followed in 1808-1810 exposed the contradictions within the colonial system. In this paper I assess Arequipa’s reaction in this context particularly its Cabildo, which must be understood in connection with the events in neighboring cities—Cuzco, Puno, La Paz, and Potosí—and in the centers of political power—Lima, Chuquisaca, and Buenos Aires. I argue that the loyalism of Arequipa’s population was a strategy to gain autonomy and defend its regional interests while avoiding conflict at the local level. An array of possibilities emerged in that period, as a result of which Spanish-American societies, led by their ruling circles, decided their future.

The Spanish-American colonies reacted in defense of King Ferdinand VII during the French invasion of Spain in 1808. The events that followed in 1808-1810 exposed the contradictions within the colonial system. In this paper I assess Arequipa’s reaction in this context particularly its Cabildo, which must be understood in connection with the events in neighboring cities—Cuzco, Puno, La Paz, and Potosí—and in the centers of political power—Lima, Chuquisaca, and Buenos Aires. I argue that the loyalism of Arequipa’s population was a strategy to gain autonomy and defend its regional interests while avoiding conflict at the local level. An array of possibilities emerged in that period, as a result of which Spanish-American societies, led by their ruling circles, decided their future.

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During the eighteenth century, the Bourbon dynasty in Spain promoted a series of educational reforms that allowed an intellectual flourishing in its American territories, the reforms strengthened the government, but also aroused criticism. While some documents written at this time critically described the colonial scenario in order to promote a series of reforms, others fulfilled the function of strengthening Fidelismo in overseas territories. The authorities of the eighteenth century were aware of the power of discourse as a tool for their consolidation and stability in power. The text written by Pedro José de Zuzunaga y Castillo in Arequipa during the uprising of José Gabriel Condorcanqui (Túpac Amaru II) evidences the changes experienced in the American intellectual elites in this period.