SUSPICIO
Creating Suspects. Security Politics and Colonial Rule in the Spanish Empire
In the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions the Spanish government’s distrust of their own population gave rise to extensive security regulations and measures in order to protect the colonial order. The ERC Consolidator Grant project SUSPICIO will examine the extend to which the creation and persecution of «suspects» broadened the basis of insurgency and revolution, so that, rather than preserving the colonial rule, security politics had a debilitating effect.