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New Worlds?
The Peace of Utrecht (1713) was perhaps the first political treaty that had a global impact. It not only ended a European-wide conflict, but also led to a cessation of hostilities on the American continent and Indian subcontinent, as well as naval warfare worldwide. More than this, however - as the chapters in this volume clearly demonstrate - the treaty marked an important step in the development of an integrated world-wide political system. By reconsidering the preconditions, negotiations and consequences of the Peace of Utrecht - rather than focusing on previous concerns with international relations and diplomacy - the contributions to this collection help embed events in a richer context...
A Fortified Sea
"Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency"--
Carajicomedia
A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina.
EL INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO GENERAL GUTIÉRREZ MELLADO. 25 AÑOS DE HISTORIA (1997-2022)
El Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado (IUGM) nació en 1997 por iniciativa del Ministerio de Defensa y quedó adscrito a la UNED como centro pionero en España para la investigación, la docencia y la difusión de los estudios relacionados con la paz, la seguridad y la defensa. Sus fundadores pretendían con ello perpetuar la memoria del capitán general Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, quien sentó las bases de la espectacular reforma y modernización de las Fuerzas Armadas españolas que tuvo lugar durante el último cuarto del siglo XX y cuyo papel fue esencial para que el tránsito de la dictadura a la democracia se realizase de forma ejemplar. Aquel militar se había singularizado también por poner de relieve la conveniencia de que las Fuerzas Armadas estrechasen sus lazos con la Universidad y que esta se implicase en temas tradicionalmente privativos del mundo castrense. La Dirección y el Patronato del Instituto decidieron conmemorar la efeméride de las bodas de plata del IUGM...
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefi...
Mosquito Empires
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.
Governing the Galleys: Jurisdiction, Justice, and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
The development of the Spanish Navy in the early modern Mediterranean triggered a change in the balance of political and economic power for the coastal populations of the Hispanic Monarchy. The establishment of new permanent squadrons, endowed with very broad jurisdictional powers, was the cause of many conflicts with the local authorities and had a direct influence on the economic and production activities of the region. Manuel Lomas analyzes the progressive consolidation of these institutions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, their influence on the mechanisms of justice and commerce, and how they contributed to the reconfiguration of the jurisdictional system that governed the maritime trade in the Mediterranean.
Prince Henry 'the Navigator'
Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.
From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries)
From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume. Contributors are David Abulafia, Manuel Ardit, Antonio Espino, Adela Fábregas, Josep M. Fradera, Enric Guinot, Helena Kirchner, Antonio Malpica, Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado, Carmen Mena, António Mendes, Félix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup, Josep Torró, and Antoni Virgili.
Antonio Herrera y su Historia General del Mundo (volumen I)
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (Cuéllar, 1549 - Madrid, 1626), cronista, historiador y escritor prolífico del Siglo de Oro, es autor, entre otras obras, de la Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano o Décadas, considerada una de las primeras "Historias de América", principalmente de los descubrimientos y conquistas. Fue Cronista Mayor de Castilla y de Indias. Está considerado el historiador de temática más amplia en su época. Entre su abundante obra sobresale esta Historia General del Mundo en tiempos de Felipe II, que Mariano Cuesta Domingo, catedrático de Historia de los Descubrimientos Geográficos y Geografía de América, ...
