L’intendance aux mains des Créoles : une réalité politique indiscutable

This text is an extract of the second part of my thesis The intendants of the viceroyalty of New Spain (1764-1821): origins, careers y colonial integration. Prosopographical test. The recruitment plan wanted by the Bourbon reformers for its agents sent to the Indias of Castile was only partially followed. The Monarchy never really succeeded in imposing its recruitment policy namely appoint Peninsular for the key positions of its Empire. In the end, it wast able nothing against colonial society and reality. At first sight, the geographical origin of the recruitment may seem to be in conformity with the reforming policy of the monarchy. Indeed, the intendants named from 1764 to 1824 in the viceroyalty of New Spain are mainly peninsular and half of them came from regions traditionnaly serving servants of the high administration of the crown such as Andalusia and both Castile. But this predominance of peninsular recruitment did not exclude for all that Creoles’ presence at the head of the institution