Viceregal Houses, Power, Articulation. The Origins of Political-Economic Government in the Kingdom of Perú in a time of incertainty (1675-1725)

This project examines the governmental transformations that have taken place in Peru in the transition from a domestic economy to one governed by political economy criteria from the viceregal houses between 1675 and 1725. The research will be based on the analysis of the decomposition of the domestic economy, understood as an indirect government governed by personal relationships, to a political economy, where the rationalization and institutionalization of government prevailed. My objective is to unravel how these transformations were consummated through the composition of the houses of the viceroys, as a primordial element of political articulation of the American kingdoms, which gave way to a new vertebration of the more centralized and secular territory. Three questions guide our analysis to know the evolutionary process of the transformation of the viceroyalty houses. First, using a methodology of Court to unravel the composition and evolution of the viceroyalty houses, in order to analyze if there is a bankruptcy of the system of patrimonial or domestic economy. Secondly, to use historical anthropology to determine whether the loss of liberality by the viceroys gave rise to a new territorial management. Finally, from political philosophy and economic sociology examine whether there is a transition from individual to general royal powers from the Consulate of Merchants.