Infrastructures of Spanish Empire

This special issue features four articles that discuss the construction of infrastructure in Latin America across the entirety of the colonial period. The essays highlight the connection between infrastructure, power, and knowledge in the Spanish Empire, as well as how Spanish, Spanish American, and Indigenous actors used and influenced this infrastructure. Topics covered include the history of the mail system in Latin America; Colonial Latin American agricultural and land practices; Indigenous defense of land in Latin America; and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge in Latin America. 

Contributors: Martín Bowen, Antoine Duranton, Mallory E. Matsumoto, José Araneda Riquelme