2024
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François Godicheau, « ’El milagro de la subordinación’ como ideal del sistema de policía: los principios del orden administrativo desde las plantaciones cubanas (1811-1834) », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.ba02ce...
This article analyses a series of projects for policing the countryside in Cuba in the first decades of the 19th century, specifically between 1811 and 1827. The originality of these projects was that they emanated directly from the Royal Consulate of Commerce in Havana and aimed at a complete reform of the public order and administration of the archipelago. The rejection of the Consulate's landowners' proposal by the crown government did not mean, however, that various aspects of the reform envisaged were not incorporated into later institutional developments between 1827 and 1855. Most importantly, however, this elaboration based on the experience of the slave-owning haciendas may well have influenced the debate on the construction of a modern administration in Spain in the early 1830s.