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This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.

History. --- Religion --- Europe --- Civilization --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Cultural History. --- History of Religion. --- History—1492-. --- History—476-1492. --- America --- Discovery and exploration --- Religious aspects --- Franciscans. --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Civilization-History. --- Religion-History. --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Civilization—History. --- Religion—History. --- Religious history --- Cultural history --- Gay culture Europe --- History --- 1492-. --- 476-1492.

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"A pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies."--

Poverty --- Poor --- History --- Social conditions --- Europe --- Economic conditions. --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- History. --- Social conditions.

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This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today's global inequalities are the result of such connected histories.

Equality --- History. --- Europe --- Colonies --- Economic policy. --- Administration --- Politics and government. --- British Empire. --- European empires. --- French Empire. --- Imperialism. --- Inequality. --- Off shore tax havens. --- Political economy. --- Redistribution. --- Reduced inequalities. --- Spanish Empire. --- Taxation. --- Welfare.