Ciudad y ciudadanía en el mundo hispano y atlántico

Abstract

In Spain and the Spanish Worlds the notion of city had also implicit the idea of non-city. The former related to the idea of a corporative entity with rights and privileges. These gave the chance of a community integration to every citizen, but also it limited those city rights to individuals included within the urban neighbourhoods in opposition to those from the out side world despite every of those integrated within the kingdom. Certainly, citizenship had the effect of integration within a political and historically built community, but at the same time both, city and citizenship, were dynamic phenomena in the Spanish empire.