Transformaciones del imaginario político neogranadino sobre la monarquía y la dominación española 1781-1819

Abstract

In the territory known as the New Kingdom of Granada, a Spanish viceroyalty restored in 1739, it was experienced a particular transformation of the political imaginaries around Hispanic power and domination, and a gradual change in the mentalities and representations of the subjects, caused by events of exogenous nature. For that reason, the historical research that was developed in that moment, focused its attention on the last four decades of the Spanish regime in Nueva Granada. In this historical moment, three periods of agitation of the imaginary were identified: the period of the Bourbon reforms, which motivated the discontent and popular resistance in 1781; the period of the monarchical crisis of 1808, when the kingdom was submerged in a political uncertainty that was tried to be mitigated with the celebration of royal ceremonies of fidelity to the monarch; and the period of independence process, which took shape in 1810, stimulated by the final and irreversible dissatisfaction of the vassals, who were dominated and subordinated for almost three centuries...