Reconfiguration of political and territorial entities and modern constitutionalism in the New Kingdom of Granada, 1808 - 1816

Author(s)

Oscar Javier Castro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-03-20

Examining board members

João Paulo Garrido Pimenta; Ana Catalina Reyes Cárdenas; Rafael de Bivar Marquese

• Advisor: João Paulo Garrido Pimenta

Abstract

This research analyzes the political and territorial reconfiguration of the Viceroyalty of New Kingdom of Granada, in the late eighteenth century and the first two decades of the nineteenth century. In the first place, the political and territorial organization of the Viceroyalty established by the Spanish monarchy will be examined. Secondly, the formation of governments juntas, congress, provincial States and confederations after the dissolution of the monarchy in 1808 will to be analyzed, as well as how they were legitimated by actas, constitutions of modern type and wars that changed political and territorial organization of the former Viceroyalty, between 1809 and 1816. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/03700-5 - The Modern Constitutionalism in the Reconfiguration of the Political-territorial Entities in the Nueva Granada, 1810-1815
• Grantee: Oscar Javier Castro
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master