Open AccessLos debates sobre la justicia en Guatemala 1797-1820
Author(s) -
Juan Carlos Sarazúa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
estudios de cultura maya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2448-5179
pISSN - 0185-2574
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23866
Subject(s) - legitimacy , appropriation , economic justice , reinterpretation , population , historiography , political science , monarchy , history , politics , sociology , ethnology , law , demography , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics
The application of justice was the basis of the legitimacy of the Spanish monarchy in its different territories. The central figure of the King as a distributor of justice has been one of the keys to the study of colonial justice in historiography, building a consolidated field in recent decades. For this reason, some aspects of the debate on the nature of justice in a period of general crisis in the Kingdom of Guatemala (1797-1820) will be addressed. This will allow us to see, in the future, the forms of appropriation and reinterpretation by the population.