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Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540
This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers. Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480–1539). This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish Empire’s frontiers as a vibra...
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Mercenaries of Knowledge
From Lisbon to Rome via the Gulf of Guinea and the sugar mills of northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of late Renaissance politics. By tracing the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654) across diverse social, cultural, and pol-itical spaces, Fabien Montcher reveals a world of religious conflicts and imperial rivalries. Here, European agents developed the practice of 'bibliopolitics'– using local and international systems for buying and selling books and manuscripts to foster political communication and debate, and ultimately to negotiate their survival. Bibliopolitics fostered the advent of a generation of 'mercenaries of knowledge' whose stories constitute a key part of seventeenth-century social and cultural history. This book also demonstrates their crucial role in creating an inter-national and dynamic Republic of Letters with others who helped shape early modern intellectual and political worlds.
American Globalization, 1492–1850
Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492–1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture in the New World, while also considering the perspective of the history of ecological globalization. This book shows how these changes triggered the formation of mixed imagined communities as well as of local and regional markets that gradually became part of a global economy. But it also highlig...
Reading the Illegible
Reading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media. The book discusses the stories surrounding the creation of the Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598–1608), the only surviving book-length text written by Indigenous people in Quechua in the early colonial period. The manuscript has been deemed “untranslatable in all the usual senses,” but scholar Laura Leon Llerena argues that it offers an important window into the meaning of legibility. The concept...
Trascendiendo fronteras
Este libro busca contribuir al debate historiográfico en torno a las circulaciones y conexiones en el espacio americano. Si bien las tradiciones historiográficas latinoamericanas, en su afán por legitimar a las nuevas repúblicas, han resaltado la importancia de "la nación", es evidente que la historia de cada país nunca ha estado desvinculada de lo que acontece más allá de sus límites. Trascendiendo fronteras. Circulaciones y espacialidades en torno al mundo americano rescata el lado poroso de las fronteras, resalta las conexiones y circulaciones de personas, objetos, ideas, gustos, entre otros, que, lejos de permanecer confinados dentro de los contornos nacionales, son movedizos, se desplazan entre distintos espacios de lo que hoy concebimos como América Latina, incluso llegando más allá de la esfera continental. En la medida en que hoy el planeta parece más conectado que nunca, los científicos sociales no deben olvidar que sus objetos de estudio se hallan insertos en unas escalas espaciales más amplias y más fluidas que las locales o nacionales.
The War Within
The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world. This book proposes to historicize these problems by looking at the ways in which early-modern Europe responded to similar challenges brought about by the rising costs of international warfare in a period marked by the development of commercial capitalism and the rise of fiscal states. Building upon the expertise of a group of fiscal historians who are leaders in their respective fields, ten chapters successively examine how Spain, Britain, France, the Southern Low Countries, the Netherlands, Sweden and Prussia dealt with domestic conflicts arising from the business of war, especially issues of financial profit, fraud and corruption. Through a series of case studies, this volume explores how the various European polities engaged with the transformative effects of warfare on the relationship between private and public interests, paving the way for institutional reforms and transformed ethics.
La Monarchia spagnola in una prospettiva policentrica : reti, conflitti, negoziazioni tra scala locale e spazi imperiali (secoli XVI-XVII)
[Italiano]: Il volume affronta uno dei temi più dibattuti nella storiografia sulla Monarchia spagnola in età moderna: la sua natura politica. Sono presi in esame gli aspetti più interessanti del modello policentrico ispanico, che presenta la Monarchia come un’entità politica composta da diverse unità interconnesse, che non solo interagivano con il re, ma anche tra loro, contribuendo alla modulazione della politica di Corte e alla generazione di nuove forme di collaborazione, competizione e negoziazione. L’analisi di quattro casi di studio, che riguardano individui, famiglie e gruppi di potere che riescono a muoversi all’interno o ai margini dei canali istituzionali, tra i territor...
People of the Iberian Borderlands
This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of...
