The viceroyalty of Peru was far from being a territory that projected its influence only on the Atlantic or the interior of the Andes. Since the sixteenth century, there was an interest in being present in strategic territories such as the transoceanic passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Mariners,...
The first century of history of the Viceroyalty of Peru was full of numerous transformations. Civil wars, economic difficulties, among other social processes were lived during those years, events that were written in testimonies in countless sources. Maybe the most revealing of them, is the official correspondence that the Viceroys...