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Shipwreck in the early modern Hispanic world
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ISBN: 1684483743 1684483700 1684483719 Year: 2022 Publisher: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press,

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"Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion"--


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Imperial Inequalities : The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires.
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ISBN: 1526175460 1526166151 1526166135 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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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.


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The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815 : a reader of primary sources
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ISBN: 9048552273 9463720642 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The Spanish Pacific designates the space Spain colonized or aspired to rule in Asia between 1521--with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan--and 1815--the end of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route. It encompasses what we identify today as the Philippines and the Marianas, but also China, Japan, and other parts of Asia that in the Spanish imagination were extensions of its Latin American colonies. This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific between European, Spanish Americans, and Asians while highlighting the role of natives, mestizos, and women. A-first-of-its-kind, each of the documents in this collection was selected, translated into English, and edited by a different scholar in the field of early modern Spanish Pacific studies, who also provided commentary and bibliography.


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Seneca's medea and republican Spain : performing the nation
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ISBN: 1855663562 1800104650 Year: 2022 Publisher: Woodbridge : Tamesis,

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Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, this book provides the most detailed reconstruction ever of one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history.


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The History of a Periphery : Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands.
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ISBN: 9781477327753 Year: 2024 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press

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An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada. During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada's economy yet this Pacific frontier in today's Colombia was considered the "periphery of the periphery." Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its brutal tropical climate, it was rarely visited by Spanish administrators, engineers, or topographers and seldom appeared in detail on printed maps of the period. In this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume, Juliet Wiersema uncovers little-known manuscript cartography and makes visible an unexamined corner of the Spanish empire. In concert with thousands of archival documents from Colombia, Spain, and the United States, she reveals how a "periphery" was imagined and projected, largely for political or economic reasons. Along the way, she unearths untold narratives about ephemeral settlements, African adaptation and autonomy, Indigenous strategies of resistance, and tenuous colonialisms on the margins of a beleaguered viceroyalty.


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Knowing Fictions
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ISBN: 9780812299502 0812299507 Year: 2020 Publisher: Philadelphia

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European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological armature of national consolidation, expansion, and conquest. At the same time, increasing pressures for religious conformity in Spain, as across Europe, required subjects to bare themselves before external authorities in intimate confessions of their faith. Emerging from this charged context, the unreliable voice of the pícaro poses a rhetorical challenge to the authority of the witness, destabilizing the possibility of trustworthy representation precisely because of his or her intimate involvement in the narrative. In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs seeks at once to rethink the category of the picaresque while firmly centering it once more in the early modern Hispanic world from which it emerged. Venturing beyond the traditional picaresque canon, Fuchs traces Mediterranean itineraries of diaspora, captivity, and imperial rivalry in a corpus of texts that employ picaresque conventions to contest narrative authority. By engaging the picaresque not just as a genre with more or less strictly defined boundaries, but as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself, Fuchs shows how self-consciously fictional picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.


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The epic mirror : poetry, conflict ethics and political community in colonial Peru
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ISBN: 1800103573 1800103581 1855663473 Year: 2022 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis Books,

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The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?


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The Chumash world at European contact
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ISBN: 1281752649 9786611752644 052094268X 9780520942684 0520254414 9780520254411 9781281752642 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this first modern synthesis of data from the Chumash heartland, Lynn H. Gamble weaves together multiple sources of evidence to re-create the rich tapestry of Chumash society. Drawing from archaeology, historical documents, ethnography, and ecology, she describes daily life in the large mainland towns, focusing on Chumash culture, household organization, politics, economy, warfare, and more.

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Chumash Indians --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Chumashan Indians --- Santa Barbara Indians --- Ventureno Chumashan Indians --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- First contact with Europeans --- Culture --- Ethnology --- California --- Spain --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- イスパニア --- スペイン --- Alta California (Province) --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Calif. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Discovery and exploration. --- History --- Colonies --- Administration. --- First contact with other peoples --- Chumash Indians -- History.. --- Chumash Indians -- Social life and customs.. --- Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- California.. --- California -- Discovery and exploration.. --- California -- History -- To 1846.. --- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration. --- 18th century american history. --- anthropology. --- archeology. --- california. --- chiefs. --- chumash culture. --- chumash society. --- chumash. --- cultural studies. --- ecology. --- economic networks. --- economy. --- ethnography. --- historical. --- history. --- household organization. --- hunter gatherer society. --- indigenous peoples. --- indigenous societies. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- north american cultures. --- politics. --- power. --- social networks. --- southern california. --- spanish empire. --- spanish explorers. --- spanish imperialism. --- spanish missionaries. --- trade. --- voyages. --- warfare.


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Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting
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ISBN: 9780691241920 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.

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Art. --- Art and society. --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Catholic Church --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Alonso Berruguete. --- Altarpiece. --- Angelo Nardi (painter). --- Antonio Mohedano. --- Antonio de Pereda. --- Apollo and Daphne (Bernini). --- Art history. --- Arte. --- Baroque painting. --- Bartolomé de las Casas. --- Benito Arias Montano. --- Caravaggio. --- Carthusians. --- Castile (historical region). --- Catholic Monarchs. --- Chapel of St. Jerome. --- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. --- Church Fathers. --- Cimabue. --- Classical mythology. --- Comedia (Spanish play). --- Council of Trent. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Court painter. --- Crown of Castile. --- Diego Velázquez. --- Discalced Carmelites. --- Don Juan Tenorio. --- El Greco. --- Erudition. --- Fernando de Herrera. --- Francisco Pacheco. --- Francisco de Borja. --- Francisco de Rioja. --- Friar. --- Garcilaso de la Vega (poet). --- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. --- Genre painting. --- Georges de La Tour. --- Gian Lorenzo Bernini. --- Giovanni Baglione. --- Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. --- Gustave Courbet. --- Hieronymites. --- Iconography. --- Ignatius of Loyola. --- Illusionism (art). --- Impressionism. --- In Ictu Oculi. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Juan de Mal Lara. --- Juan de las Roelas. --- Jusepe de Ribera. --- Las Hilanderas (Velázquez). --- Las Meninas. --- Literature. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Masaccio. --- Matthew 25. --- Military order (monastic society). --- Museo del Prado. --- Order of Santiago. --- Our Lady of Guadalupe. --- Painting. --- Parmigianino. --- Pietro da Cortona. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Protestantism. --- Putto. --- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. --- Real Academia de la Historia. --- Religious art. --- Renaissance art. --- Sacristy. --- Saint Christopher. --- Santa Hermandad. --- Santa Trinita. --- Scholasticism. --- Seville Cathedral. --- Shakespeare's sonnets. --- Society of Jesus. --- Spain. --- Spanish Empire. --- Spanish Golden Age. --- Spanish art. --- Spanish nobility. --- Susanna (Book of Daniel). --- Teresa of Ávila. --- The Art of Painting. --- The Battle of Lepanto (Luna painting). --- The Dissertation. --- The Poetaster. --- The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt). --- Theory of painting. --- Tintoretto. --- Titian. --- University of Salamanca. --- Ut pictura poesis.

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