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Polycentric Monarchies
Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an almost global hegemony, constituting the largest political force in Europe and abroad. Although they lost their political primacy in the seventeenth century, both monarchies survived and were able to enjoy a relative success until the early 19th century. The aim of this collection is to answer the question how and why their cultural and political legacies persist to date. Part I focuses on the construction of the monarchy, examining ...
Los siglos XVI-XVII
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Las monarquías española y francesa (siglos XVI-XVIII)
Desde fines del siglo XX, los historiadores de lo político llevaron adelante una crítica de fondo de la aplicación a la época moderna de conceptos heredados del siglo XIX, tales como los de nación o Estado moderno. Así, se ha considerado hasta ahora que existían dos modelos políticos opuestos, sobre todo porque ciertos actores diferenciaban los caracteres y los usos franceses y españoles. En qué medida las monarquías española y francesa pueden seguir concibiéndose como contrapuestas? A partir de la constatación de la naturaleza problemática del concepto de modelo político, en su formulación por la comunidad política, en su recepción exterior y en sus procesos de adaptación, modificación, fusión, etc., esta obra ofrece una visión mucho más compleja, al mostrar que la circulación de las prácticas administrativas y las teorías de gobierno entre ambas monarquías sólo se puede entender en el marco y como expresión de una cultura común.
Las formas de la hispanofilia
Las afinidades hacia la Monarquía del rey de España estuvieron en el centro de la capacidad de proyección y de la presencia imperial ibérica a lo largo del mundo. Estas afinidades permitieron articular una mayor potencia de influencia sobre los territorios y las sociedades exteriores a la Monarquía, generando actores políticos que la identificaron como su aliado natural en sus conflictos civiles, rebeldes que se quisieron apoyar en ella para resistir a los poderes constitutivos, familias que desarrollaron una relación clientelar con el poder ibérico hacia el que confluían sus vástagos para trabajar en su administración, servir en sus ejércitos o estudiar en sus Universidades; fac...
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, Muslims, Dutch and German Protestants), and with issues related to the ethnic diversity of the world’s first transatlantic empire and its various miscegenations. Contributors to this volume offer the reader diverse vantage points on the challenging problem of how identities in the Hispanic world may be analyzed and interpreted. A number of contributors relate earlier processes and formations to Neo-Baroque and postmodern conceptualisations of identity. Given the strong interest in identity and identity-formation within contemporary cultural studies, the book will be of interest to a broad group of readers from the fields of law, geography, history, anthropology and literature.
Early Modern Sovereignties
The essays in this volume explore the theories and practices of sovereignty in the context of state-building in the early modern Northern and Southern Low Countries. The book approaches this historical debate from three angles: (1) political theoretical, (2) legal, and (3) politico-historical.
Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe
A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch’s rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive estates. While monarchs wanted to perpetuate a system in which they could watch over members of the regional elite at court and keep them busy, they sought to make use of them as local and provincial administrators, that is, as long as they remained loyal: a fraught balancing act. Contributors include: Hélder Carvalhal, Peter Edwards, Jemma Field, Cailean Gallagher, Pedro José Herades-Ruiz, Graeme S. Millen, Vita Malašinskiené, Tibor Monostori, Steve Murdoch, David Potter, Peter S. Roberts, Irene Maria Vicente-Martin, and Matthias Wong.
Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day
This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time beginning with the ‘Long War’ in present day Afghanistan and concluding with warfare in classical Greece. Along the way it engages with conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and regional rebellion in Tudor England. Each case study provides unique insights into the practices, experiences, and discourses that have shaped this ubiquitous type of conflict. Readers interested in rebellion and repression, cultural and tactical interpretations of conflict, civilian strategies in wartime, the supposed ‘western way of war’, and the ways in which participants have framed and related their actions across a variety of spheres will find much of interest in these pages.
The Military Revolution and the Trajectory of Spain: War, State and Society 1500-1700
I.A.A.Thompson, Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of War and Government in Habsburg Spain, a seminal study of the impact of war on the development of the state in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this volume he reprints for an English readership ten essays examining the implications for government, the financial system and Spain’s position in Europe of the fundamental changes in the art and practice of war, both on land and at sea, that took place during this period. This “Military Revolution” has been one of the most contentious debates among historians for the last fifty years, but little attention has so far been paid to Spain itself, despite her predominance in Europe for much of the period. These essays are designed to correct that omission, and to assist in a fuller understanding both of the Military Revolution and of the strengths and weaknesses of the Spanish state.
