MACAU E MANILA NO ARBITRISMO IBÉRICO在伊比利亞仲裁主義中的澳門和馬尼拉
This article analyzes the presence and circulation of Iberian *arbitrismo*, taking the colonial spaces of Macau and Manila as case studies, and seeks to understand how discourses of *arbítrios* (technical-political and fiscal proposals directed at royal authority) were mobilized to address conjunctu...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
July 2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40023/3707 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the presence and circulation of Iberian *arbitrismo*, taking the colonial spaces of Macau and Manila as case studies, and seeks to understand how discourses of *arbítrios* (technical-political and fiscal proposals directed at royal authority) were mobilized to address conjunctures of crisis, financing, and governability within the Spanish imperial system and, in articulation, within the Luso-Asian universe. The central argument holds that, beyond mere reformist rhetoric, *arbítrios* functioned as mechanisms of mediation between local observers and decision-making centers, converting mercantile, administrative, and maritime experiences into suggested solutions—often with a strong fiscal bent and generating tensions vis-à-vis representative bodies. Methodologically, the approach rests on a historical-semantic contextualization of *arbitrismo* and of the agent known as the *arbitrista*, articulated with the reading and framing of the opinions and proposals related to these two Far Eastern nodes. It concludes that the circulation of these texts reconfigured administrative practices and expectations of rewards (*mercês*) and, simultaneously, contributed to the construction of an ambivalent image of the *arbitrista*, marked by criticisms of extravagance, opportunism, and increased burdens on populations and privileges. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |