Postal networks and global letters in Cartagena de Indias: the overseas mail in the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century

Rocío Moreno-Cabanillas
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ABSTRACT In the eighteenth century, all European colonial empires undertook the task of institutionalising their postal systems. Within the framework of the Bourbon reforms, the Spanish monarchy embarked upon reforming the postal system within the Spanish America with the aim of making transatlantic communications more reliable and regular. These plans, however, were hampered by an ongoing power struggle between all agents with a stake in the circulation of information. This is clearly reflected in the postal office in Cartagena de Indias, which was a key node for the Crown and a point of confluence for the strategies and interests of different local and global powers; the office, therefore, represented the polyhedric reality of postal communication. This paper shows that the institution had its own agency by constituting one of the main power tools, which is a reflection of the close relationship that exists between empire and communication.
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卡塔赫纳的邮政网络和全球信件:18世纪西班牙帝国的海外邮件
摘要十八世纪,所有欧洲殖民帝国都承担了邮政系统制度化的任务。在波旁改革的框架内,西班牙君主制开始改革西班牙美洲的邮政系统,目的是使跨大西洋的通信更加可靠和正常。然而,这些计划因所有与信息流通有利害关系的特工之间持续的权力斗争而受阻。这一点在卡塔赫纳德印第亚斯的邮政局中得到了明确的反映,这是王室的一个关键节点,也是不同地方和全球大国战略和利益的汇合点;因此,该办公室代表了邮政通信的多面体现实。本文认为,制度作为主要的权力工具之一,具有自己的能动性,这反映了帝国与传播之间存在着密切的关系。
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