All Roads Lead to Mexico? The Postal Network of Late Colonial New Spain as an Integrated Communication Space. Stangl, W. In Hyden-Hanscho, V. & Stangl, W., editors, Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies, of Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History, pages 197–223. Springer Nature, Singapore, 2023. ![All Roads Lead to Mexico? The Postal Network of Late Colonial New Spain as an Integrated Communication Space [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex The “Bourbon Reforms” of the eighteenth century arguably aimed at a more “rational” governance in Spanish America, including the reorganization of the postal system as a state enterprise in 1767, designed to meet the demands of a transoceanic administration and economic progress. The new, tighter administrative conception thereby ironically helped to consolidate a proto-national public sphere, accelerating the circulation of political ideas. Despite the widely acknowledged importance of the postal system, very little has been published about how the network between post stations was organized and how it evolved. This chapter is based on the analysis of a late colonial manuscript which is structured in an unusual way: it presents the geography of the mail not as itineraries but as a function of time, frequency, and distance to the capital. While it thus presents a radial topology, close analysis reveals a much more polycentric network of regional nodes, forming an interconnected and well-integrated proto-national communication space.
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keywords = {Decentral organization, Metropolitan gaze, Mexico, Polycentric organization, Postal system, Public sphere},
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