Imperialización de la monarquía y foralidad a finales del siglo XVIII

Abstract

This article explores one of the most successful forms of resistance to processes of imperialisation that various monarchies, including the Spanish monarchy, put into practice at the end of the 18th century. There were several corporations endowed with their own special jurisdiction in the Hispanic society of the Ancien Régime, but this text focuses on those jurisdictions that politically organised territorial communities. Within Spanish historiography, the cases of the provinces of Álava and Gipuzkoa, the Lordship of Biscay and the Kingdom of Navarre are well known, but similar processes in America had not previously been identified. The study of the Indian province of Tlaxcala offers an interesting counterpoint to the foral system in a colonial context.