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Odious Debt
What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how their history can shed new light on contemporary global dilemmas. With a focus on the early modern Spanish Empire and modern Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, and based on archival research carried out across seven countries, Odious Debt studies 400 years of history and unearths overlooked congressional debates and understudied thinkers. The book shows how discussions on the morality of debt and default played a structuring rol...
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...
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...
Early Bourbon Spanish America
The years between the accession of the house of Bourbon to the Spanish throne in 1700 and the coronation of Carlos III in 1759 have often been bundled up, and dismissed, together with the later years of Habsburg rule. Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focus exclusively on Early Bourbon Spanish America, this collective volume gives prominence to the first half of the eighteenth century as a distinct historical period. Discussing from different methodological and geographical perspectives the ways in which the Bourbon succession, international competition over access to Spanish American resources, and war affected the Indies, the contributors examine some of the key changes experienced in Spanish America at the local, provincial and imperial level.
World Guide to Library, Archive and Information Science Education
This directory lists education institutions world-wide where professional education and training programmes in the field of library, archive and information science are carried out at a tertiary level of education or higher. More than ten years after the publication of the last edition, this up-to-date reference source includes more than 900 universities and other institutions, and more than 1.500 relevant programmes. Entries provide contact information as well as details such as statistical information, tuition fees, admission requirements, programmes' contents.
Pensar la Monarquía y gobernarla. Cultura política en la Monarquía de España. Teorías y prácticas
En este volumen recogemos algunas de las posibles líneas de investigación que pueden desarrollarse desde la perspectiva de la cultura política en la Monarquía de España durante el siglo XVII. Se manifiestan en diferentes planos relacionales: entre el rey y los reinos, el rey y los súbditos, el rey y los entornos cortesanos y el rey y la dinastía. El avance de las investigaciones exige la reconsideración de mitos historiográficos arraigados que no pueden sostenerse a fuerza de su reiteración.
Sobre historia moderna
Los trabajos reunidos en esta publicación proceden de las presentaciones que fueran realizadas en el XIV Coloquio Internacional de Historiografía Europea y XI Jornadas de Estudios sobre la Modernidad Clásica, que se realizara en la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, los días 23, 24, 25 y 26 de noviembre de 2021. Estas presentaciones profundizan las claves que puedan favorecer una mejor interpretación de la producción historiográfica sobre el período, se realizan revisiones conceptuales, se analiza el diseño de nuevas líneas de investigación al tiempo que se reflexiona sobre cuestiones teóricas y metodológicas de la disciplina histórica en ámbitos específicos. La presencia y la intervención de historiadores procedentes de universidades argentinas y extranjeras nos permiten realizar un intercambio en relación con los avances logrados en los últimos años en nuestro campo de investigación y la valoración de los logros y el excelente nivel de la historiografía modernista.
Castellanos y leoneses en América: narración biográfica y prácticas de identificación
Esta obra aborda la auto-representación de un amplio colectivo de ciudadanos de distintos países americanos que o bien nacieron en Castilla y León o son descendientes de emigrantes de nuestra región. La base fundamental del estudio radica en una de las más importantes colecciones memorialísticas de la emigración europea a América surgida de los denominados Premios Memoria de la Emigración Castellana y Leonesa. Al calor de aquellos, desde 2005 se han reunido trescientos relatos de vida que reflejan la memorialización del pasado entre algunos colectivos, fundamentalmente en Argentina y Cuba, cuya vinculación con Castilla y León se ha visto revitalizada en los últimos veinticinco a...
Del 1640 al 1705
En aquest llibre, i a diferència de la tesi sostinguda per Ferran Soldevila i Pierre Vilar, que ha estat seguida per molts altres historiadors, s'interpreta i es documenta que el sentit polític que defineix centralment, per part catalana, els xocs de 1640 i 1705 és essencialment el mateix: tractar d'assegurar la integritat i la continuïtat del règim d'autogovern propi en el marc d'un model d'estat de tipus constitucionalista. La incardinació en el joc de la política internacional europea seria en el 1640 per intentar frenar les escomeses del reformisme absolutista d?Olivares, i en el 1705 per procurar recuperar el terreny perdut en l?autogovern d?ençà 1652. En aquest sentit l?aposta catalana de 1705 tindria un horitzó «sobiranista català» i l?objectiu seria afermar les llibertats del sistema pactista. A partir d?aquí s?hi podia bastir un marc polític i institucional propi que fos capaç de donar sortida a les energies i al dinamisme d?una economia en expansió.
Political Representation in the Ancien Régime
What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European territories and finally from a connected and comparative perspective. The aim is twofold: analyse the different mechanisms of political representation before Liberalism, their strengths and limitations; value the processes of oligarchisation and the possible mismatch between a libertarian model and a reality which was far from its idealised image.
