Coord.: CONSUELO NARANJO (CSIC, Madrid), STÉPHANE MICHONNEAU (EHEHI-Casa de Velázquez), MARTIN RODRIGO ALHARILLA (Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives - Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Org.: Instituto de Historia - Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - CSIC, Casa de Velázquez
Col.: Agence nationale de la recherche, Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Presentation
The management and government of the colonies demanded in a continuous sense a knowledge and control of the territories. To know in order to control so that it is possible to adapt the colonial policy to the metropolitan needs and the colony demands. All of this belongs to the same system in which were involved the metropolis and the colonies. It is important to know the reformist stage and its characteristics since from the ideological and philosophical illustrate configuration – and its special starting in Spain and its overseas territories – appeared different ways of understanding the authority and its experience management. In this way, the Spanish reformism is the expression of a illustration “from above”, with poor social grounds.
Secondly, we will work on those instruments which were used by the metropolitan governments in order to have a right knowledge of the colonies, its population, natural resources, plants, animals, etc. ´The scientific expeditions, the population register and census were some of the tools which were useful to know precisely the state of the colonies. That knowledge was very useful to plan and to give content the colonial policies.
We try to analyse the strategies that the Iberian Empires deployed along the XIXth century and during the first quarter of the XXth century in order to follow governing the colonies and which way the colonial policies were being changed. In the middle of the Imperialism, and after the first colonial independence war, the metropolis took some decisions that leaded to a new reassessment of the policy relations with the introduction of liberal reforms in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Shortly before, the creation of Overseas Ministry as a specific management institution showed a renewed interest for the overseas management. The creation of policy parties and the incorporation of Las Antillas to the metropolitan parliament system, there are some of the main changes whose evolution along the time will be aim of special attention.
Other aspect to be studies will be the evolution of the public funds of the colonies, main element that shows the nature of the colonial relation. It will be studied the fiscal instruments designed by the metropolis in order to drain the resources generated from the economical activity of the colony to metropolitan’s own benefice, its quantity and its evolution with special focus on fiscal reforms. The evolution of the tax policy and the state income from Las Antillas are certainly bore on the transformation of the system of slave plantation.
Organisation
The workshop week will receive some distinguished specialists in this subject. This workshop is focus on diverse public: researchers, PhD or post-PhD students or secondary education teachers. Participants, who will be a maximum of 20 people, will share their time between methodological and historiographic conferences taught by the lecturers, practical workshops in archives and libraries and presentations of their own research that will be discussed between all. Teaching will be given in Spanish, or in English, Portuguese or French as an exception.
Lines of research
• From the Bourbon Reformism to the loss of colonies: new colonial institutions.
• The knowledge of the colonies: to collect data about the territories and the population.
• Organization of the empires: bureaucracy, ministries and administrative agents.
• Economic policy and tax system: analysis of the colonial relationship in light of the economic interests of the metropolitan and colonial elite.
Lecturers
Mª Dolores González-Ripoll Navarro (Instituto de Historia-CCHS, CSIC)
Consuelo Naranjo Orovio (Instituto de Historia-CCHS, CSIC)
Jean-Philippe Luis (Université de Clermont-Ferrand)
Miguel Rodriguez (Université Paris I)
Josep Maria Delgado (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Martín Rodrigo Alharilla (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Stéphane Michonneau (EHEHI-Casa de Velázquez)
Practical information
The organizing committee will assume the accommodation, in double room and half-board. It is not possible to be boarded the 28th of June.
Travelling should be assumed by the students.
There will be four Grants of 300 € that will be only offered to students of Universities or Institutions of higher education of Maghreb or Latin America who will apply this application form.
If you are interested, please fill the following application form before the 15th of May, 2012 (before midday). Subscriptions are closed.
Provisional programme
25th June, CCHS
Morning:
Inauguration
2 communications (subject 1)
Afternoon :
1 communication: Mª Dolores Elizalde and a research session with Tomás Navarro Tomás Library
26th June, Casa de Velázquez
Morning :
3 communications (subject 2)
Afternoon :
Presentations of PhD students
27th June, Casa de Velázquez
Morning :
3 communications (subjects 3 and 4)
Afternoon :
Presentations of PhD students
28th June, Archivo Histórico Nacional
Morning:
Research session in AHN : Inés Roldán
Presentations of PhD students
Closure