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Llano Zapata, a creole of Spain apologist: exchange-critical apologetic about the Spanish colonization in the mid-eighteenth century

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espanolLa colonizacion espanola en America ha constituido, desde el primer momento, tema de polemica historiografica. Y no dejo de serlo en el siglo XVIII. Pues bien, a mediados de la centuria, antes e las vehementes apologias del reinado de Carlos III, encontramos la defensa de la colonizacion espanola por parte de un criollo, Llano Zapata, en un vivo dialogo epistolar con el erudito Gregorio Mayans. EnglishThe Spanish colonization in America has been, from the first moment, a theme of historiographic controversy. And it was on like that during the 18th Century. That�s why, in the middle of the Century, before the vehement apologies in the reign of Carlos III, we can find the defense of the Spanish colonization by a creole, Llano Zapata, in an expressively epistolary dialogue with the erudite Gregorio Mayans.