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 design that the Bourbon kings implemented in Spanish America during the 18th century but also its impacton the region.
It is worth noting that it describes the characteristics and institutional modalities that are inherent in the militarization of the monarchy, which implied 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 represented unavoidable elements in the later construction of an institutional identity of the Hispano-American states of the 19th century; nevertheless, adequate historiographical attention has not been devoted to this phenomenon.