Still persists the idea that during the eighteenth century Chile lived a time of both social and moral repression, especially in the rural sectors of the population, where people lived separated from the main urban centers, sometimes even by their own choice. That is why the objective of this article is to investigate through judicial records how s...
The bungalow dwelling seen in many of the English speaking countries and British colonies originates in British colonial India, and is a hybrid of western and eastern architecture. This article answers the following research questions “What is the bungalow typology?” “What influence did the British architectural style have on the regional variants ...
Review of Richard Parra, «La tiranía del Inca. El Inca Garcilaso y la escritura política en el Perú colonial (1568-1617)», Lima, Ediciones Copé, 2015, 508 pp., ISBN 978-6124-20-221-6 / Reseña de Richard Parra, La tiranía del Inca. El Inca Garcilaso y la escritura política en el Perú colonial (1568-1617), Lima, Ediciones Copé, 2015, 508 pp., ISBN 97...
Loans became a fundamental variable to analyze the economic development of the colonies of the Americas. Although chaplaincies have traditionally been studied as the religious institution through which it was possible to supply financial resources throughout the economic system; this article studies the case of pious works, in particular the role p...
As is know, the Real Audience was created by Felipe II as part of the Viceroyalty of Peru and regulated by royal decrees. The territorial jurisdiction was changed over time incorporating different territories, so that the first forty years of its history were particulary decisive to consolidate their place in the colonial system. Within this proces...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the education of children at St Helena Penal Establishment in Queensland and the trials faced by the educators that delivered their formal schooling. The paper will add to the growing research into the prison island and will provide an insight into a unique facet of education in the newly established Australi...
The issue of the olive tree in Colonial America has been rarely studied. Therefore it is relevant to promote research iniciatives aiming to gather better insights on the consequences of the introduction of this tree in the New World. The main goal of the present work is to point out the historiographical vacuum in this regard, and to propose some k...
In this contribution, we present a visual essay of the first two decades of the existence of Lubumbashi, DR Congo, from roughly 1910 onwards till 1931. During this twenty year period, this Congolese city changed from a modest, informal settlement into a colonial mining town, the urban landscape of which became dotted by elegant buildings. Our narra...
This article forms a critique on the formation of a colonial historiography concerning the interactions of the maritime 'Ostend Company' (GIC) in eighteenth century China and India. This historiography has ignored aspects of intercultural communication, which provided the conditions of possibility for any further interaction and exchange. The conce...
The founding in 1910 of Lubumbashi, the former Elisabethville, second major city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, can in large part be understood as a geopolitical act of the Belgian government to secure its claims on a Central African territory full of mineral resources, already reputed at the time for being a ‘geological scandal’. In part...
