Abstract

CUELLAR WILLS, LINA. Territories on Paper: The Stranger's Guides in Latin America (1760-1897). Front. hist. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.2, pp.176-201. ISSN 2027-4688.

After the second half of the 18th century, a series of prints called Stranger's Guides were printed for the first time in Spanish America. These were small directories that registered the Spanish administration's structure in America, and which generally came together with almanacs or calendars. Over the years, the Guides contents showed some of its features: spreading official and institutional knowledge, as well as displaying operative views of Latin American cities. This paper aims to show, in the frame of cultural history, how the Stranger's Guides were resources for the Spanish Monarchy to spread knowledge in Spanish America during a long 19th, working as a means to establish a social, political, and bureaucratic order of the cities as part of the administration.

Keywords : Almanacs; bourbon reforms; cultural history; history of the book; stranger's guides.

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