La militarización borbónica de las Indias como trasfondo de las experiencias políticas revolucionarias rioplatenses

Abstract

As an expression of the line of investigation that the author has pursued for several years, this essay examines not only the renewed administrative de- sign that the Bourbon kings implemented in Span- ish America during the 18th century but also its impacton the region. It is worth noting that it describes the character- istics and institutional modalities that are inherent in the militarization of the monarchy, which im- plied the transfer to the civil sphere of the military order, hierarchy, precision and uniformity. All this came about through the conviction that the perspectives and political absolutist styles rep- resented unavoidable elements in the later con- struction of an institutional identity of the His- pano-American states of the 19th century; never- theless, adequate historiographical attention has not been devoted to this phenomenon.