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"Lazy, Improvident People"
Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before....
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.
Philip IV and the World of Spain's Rey Planeta
Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century? This edited collection looks at perceptions and representations of Philip IV, Spain's 'Planet King', and his government against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century General Crisis in Europe, wars, revolutions and a sovereign debt crisis. Scholars often associate Philip's reign (1621-1665) with decline, decadence, crisis, stagnation and adversity (as did many contemporaries); yet the glittering cultural and artistic achievements (enhanced by his patronage) of the period led it to be dubbed 'the' Golden Age. The book analyses these contradictions, examining Philip's own understanding of kingship and how he and his courtiers used art and ceremony to project an image of strength, tradition, culture and prestige, while, at the same time, the empire grappled with revolts in Europe and falling trade with its New World colonies.
Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia
Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K’iche, Kaqchikel (Guatemala); Amage, Aymara, Cholón, Huarpe, Kunza, Mochica, Mapudungun, Proto-Tacanan, Pukina, Quechua, Uru-Chipaya (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia); (Tupi-)Guarani (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay). The results of the studies include: a) a digital model of a good, conveniently arranged vocabulary, applicable to all indigenous Amerindian languages; b) disclosure of intertextual relationships, language contacts, circulation of knowledge; c) insights in grammatical structures; d) phone analyses; e) transcriptions, so that the texts remain accessible for further research. f) the architecture of grammars; g) conceptual evolutions and innovations in grammaticography.
The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer
The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain explores the history of the Aragonese Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (1607-1682) as scientific collector: his cabinet of curiosities, the garden created in the enviroment of his palace, his chemical laboratory, and the books, manuscripts, maps and other curiosities collected in his library. At once a patron, courtier, and 'curioso', Lastanosa was deeply inmersed in the culture of 'virtuosity' and its fascination with the wonders and secrets of nature. Lastanosa was, perhaps, not an innovator, and certainly no Baconian, but, like many others collectors of his day, in his own way he furthered the ideal of factuality that was of cardinal importance in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution.
Los orígenes del pensamiento reaccionario español
Cincuenta años después de que se publicara, en 1971, la primera edición de Los orígenes del pensamiento reaccionario español, de Javier Herrero, el resurgir de fuerzas antidemocráticas y de regímenes autoritarios lo convierte en una obra de actualidad. Los componentes reaccionarios que alimentan dichas ideologías nos obligan, como ciudadanos comprometidos con los valores de la libertad y del Estado de derecho, a conocer la génesis de ese pensamiento, para poder hacerle frente. Sin teleologismos, el estudio realizado por Herrero para el caso español, en el contexto europeo de la Ilustración y de la Revolución francesa, nos alerta hoy también sobre la violencia y el peligro de este tipo de manifestaciones. El reaccionario teme la modernidad, el presente. Le angustia el futuro y exalta el pasado. Herrero nos enseñó las raíces del miedo político, de esta pesadilla. Su lectura actual es una revelación, nos ilumina.
Burgueses o ciudadanos en la España moderna
Polémico, controvertido, crucial es el asunto de la burguesía en la España del Antiguo Régimen. Crucial porque o bien, especificamente los que estamos embarcados en las lides de la investigación histórica, o bien casi todos los ciudadanos de la civilización occidental, ya sea por profesionales (liberales), por portadores de un determinado ideario, o simplemente como personas de un mediano pasar, nos podemos sentir hijos o herederos de la burguesía, por muy denostada que esté esta expresión. Polémico, controvertido y hasta contradictorio porque, aunque nos unan muchos puntos en común, los especialistas no nos terminamos de poner de acuerdo sobre qué, cuándo, dónde, por qué o para qué la burguesía. En fin, la burguesía tiene todos los ingredientes para ser, ahora y por siempre, uno de los temas estrella de la historiografía.
¿Qué esperamos de la democracia participativa?
Lo que se propone esta obra es analizar las preferencias ciudadanas por diferentes formas de organizar la democracia. En la primera parte se aborda, por medio de datos de encuesta a nivel comparado, el apoyo —y sus determinantes— a tres modelos ideales de democracia: el representativo, el participativo y el tecnocrático. La segunda parte estudia qué sucede con las propuestas y anhelos de los ciudadanos después de participar en mecanismos e instituciones locales de democracia participativa. Por último, con intención provocativa, el libro abre la puerta a la posibilidad de introducir la inteligencia artificial en procesos de decisión colectiva.
