El comercio librario: mecanismos de distribución y control de la cultura escrita en Indias

Abstract

The book arrived in America following the trace of the first discoveries and conquests, playing a fundamental role in the assimilation of those territories to the European culture of the sixteenth century. The History of the book is a subject to which a greater attention is given every day from the most varied points of view of Human Sciences (History of the culture, Bibliography, Law, etc…). In the present investigation this question is approached from one of those possible perspectives of analysis: the one of the commerce of the printed —understanding of the book in its double aspect of merchandise and a propagating element of culture— and its legal regulation. In order to obtain it, the referred legislation to the American book trading is analyzed, as well as varied ways of delevering and control imposed by the Crown, to control the propagation of those ideas considered dangerous