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We, the King
We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. During the viceregal period spanning the post-1492 conquest until 1598, the King signed more than 110,000 pages of decrees concerning state policies, minutiae, and everything in between. Through careful analysis of these decrees, Adrian Masters illustrates how law-making was aided and abetted by subjects from various backgrounds, including powerful court women, indigenous commoners, Afro-descendant raftsmen, secret saboteurs, pirates, sovereign Chiriguano Indians, and secretaries' wives. Subjects' innumerable petitions and labor prompted – and even phrased - a complex body of legislation and legal categories demonstrating the degree to which this empire was created from the “bottom up”. Innovative and unique, We, the King reimagines our understandings of kingship, imperial rule, colonialism, and the origins of racial categories.
Beyond 1619
Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context. In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery and its aftermath, with 1619—the year that the first recorded enslaved persons of African descent arrived in British North America—taking center stage as its starting point. Yet this dialogue has inadvertently narrowed our understanding o...
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
“A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others.”—Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this vent...
A Tale of Two Granadas
This book examines how race, ethnicity, and religious difference affected the concession of citizenship in the Spanish Empire's territories.
Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond
This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity. The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.
Colombia, la grande
Colombia, la grande reúne las perspectivas de destacados historiadores e historiadoras en una obra colectiva que ofrece una mirada innovadora y crítica sobre la primera República de Colombia (1819-1830). A través de rigurosos ensayos historiográficos y novedosos estudios con base en fuentes de archivo, el equipo autoral explora las complejidades de este periodo crucial en la historia latinoamericana. El prólogo, a cargo de Marco Palacios, subraya la relevancia y actualidad política e historiográfica de los temas abordados. Esta obra desafía las narrativas convencionales sobre el Congreso de la Villa del Rosario de Cúcuta de 1821, analizando críticamente cómo se ha interpretado es...
Entre el poder, el cambio y el orden social en la Nueva Granada colonial
Las obras hidráulicas tuvieron un lugar de capital importancia en la Santafé virreinal. Si bien la construcción de acueductos, canales de desagüe y puentes no fue exclusiva del siglo xviii, vale la pena advertir que para finales de este siglo aumentaron las discusiones y controversias en torno al mejoramiento de la infraestructura hidráulica. Formalmente, lo anterior se ampara en la considerable cantidad de expedientes capitulares, audienciales, notariales y financieros que nos hablan de las construcciones e intervenciones hidráulicas adelantadas en la ciudad. Tal tipo de evidencia es útil no sólo para imaginar el rostro material de la Santafé dieciochesca, sino además para reflexionar en torno a los argumentos y justificaciones bajo los que la administración capitalina decidió ejecutar —o no— ciertos proyectos.
Escrituras de la intimidad
Las escrituras de la intimidad se han constituido en un terreno fértil de indagación interdisciplinaria de las ciencias sociales y humanas. Disciplinas como la antropología, la historia, la filosofía, la sociología y la crítica literaria han construido puentes para abordar los textos en primera persona, cuya lectura jamás podrá ser unívoca ni unidireccional. El carácter polisémico, interdisciplinario y reflexivo de las escrituras del yo queda bien representado en las trece propuestas que componen este libro, que es, también, una colección representativa del estado actual de este campo de estudios en Colombia y de las convergencias disciplinares que ha posibilitado. Desde el inte...
Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain
This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of “early globalization” during the early modern period. Based on a pioneering archival strategy developed by GECEM Project (Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the chapters in this volume deploy innovative methodology built on the process of clustering new empirical evidence on geostrategic locations to analyse complex socioeconomic systems. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific case study that validate the usefulness of this ...
Entre el acceso y la circulación
El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar las formas de acceso al agua y los procedimientos bajo los cuales se gestionaron algunas obras hidráulicas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII en la ciudad de Santafé. La construcción de acueductos, pilas, puentes, entre otros, serán motivo de este estudio, además de diversas circunstancias que posibilitaron la aparición de este tipo de infraestructura. Por medio de lo anterior examinaremos los retos administrativos a los que tuvieron que enfrentarse los gobiernos de la ciudad a finales del siglo XVIII y la agencia entre el Cabildo y la Audiencia alrededor del mismo tema. Será importante observar desde qué tipo de argumentos y conc...
