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From Colony to Republic: a Case Study in Bureaucratic Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

William Lofstrom
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It is axiomatic, but certainly deserving of periodic repetition, that the long-term configuration of political, social and economic institutions in Iberian America has been determined both by the apparatus, operation and rationale of the metropolitan state, as well as by the premises and patterns of colonization. Equally apparent is the premise that the politico-administrative crisis associated with the achievement of independence in early nineteenth-century Latin America must be studied in the light of this ‘set’ of New World institutions, and particularly in relation to what Richard Morse calls the Spanish patrimonial state.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , November 1973 , pp. 177 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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23 ANB, MI, 3, 12, Carlos María de Ortega to Sucre, Oruro, 23 Feb. 1825, 28 Feb. 1825, 5 Mar. 1825, 7 Mar. 1825; ANB, MI, 8, 63 draft, Sucre to Ortega, La Paz, 22 Feb. 1825; draft, Sucre to Andrés de Santa Cruz, Potosí, 9 Apr. 1825; ANB, MI, 5, 18, Municipality of Chuquisaca to Sucre, 27 Apr. 1825; ANB, MI, 3, 10, Junta to Sucre, 4 May 1825.

24 ANB, MI, 4, 13 [List of employees in Potosí], Potosí, 7 Apr. [and 16 ?] 1825.

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28 ANB, MI, 4, 23 [List of employees in Potosí], Potosí, 7 Apr. [and 16 ?] 1825.

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31 ANB, Ml, 4, 13, Miller to Sucre, Potosí, 19 May 1825 (34).

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37 Sucre to Bolívar, Potosí, 29 Mar. 1825, in O'Leary, 221−2; Chuquisaca, 16 June 1825; La Paz, 28 July 1825, in Sucre, Cartas, 1, 355, 380.

38 ANB, MI, 3, II, José María Guerrero to Sucre, La Paz, 18 June 1825; Pablo Manuel Segovia to Sucre, La Paz, 19 Oct. 1825; ANB, MI, 5, 19, Municipality of La Paz to Sucre, 21 June 1825.

39 ANB, MI, 8, 63 draft, Sucre to Gobernador polItico and Intendente dc hacienda of La Paz, Potosí, 12 Oct. 1825; ANB, MI, 12, 15, Andrés de Santa Cruz to Infante, La Paz, 5 Feb. 1826 (22); and (29) of same date. For biography of Santa Cruz, see Alfonso, Crespo Rodas, Santa Cruz, el cóndor indio (Mexico, 1944).Google Scholar

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56 ANB, MI, 6, 42, Infante's signature appears in a marginal note returning a petition of two officers of the Pichincha Regiment, which had been submitted to Sucre.

57 ANB, MI, 8, 63 draft, Sucre to Coronel of Grenadiers Regiment, Chuquisaca, 10 Nov. 1825.

58 Temple, 11, 19; Pentland, ff. 231-231v.

59 See a circular dated 31 Mar. 1826, in Colección oficial, 1834–1835, 1, 176; and ANB, Ministerio de Hacienda (MH), I, I, Secretary of Permanent Deputation to Infante, Chuquisaca, 21 Mar. 1826.Google Scholar

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