How The Spanish Empire Was Built

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto,Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789148879

Get Book

How the Spanish Empire Was Built by Felipe Fernández-Armesto,Manuel Lucena Giraldo Pdf

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 venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto,Manuel. Lucena Giraldo
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789148404

Get Book

How the Spanish Empire Was Built by Felipe Fernández-Armesto,Manuel. Lucena Giraldo Pdf

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 venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.

Author : Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540846

Get Book

The Global Spanish Empire by Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass Pdf

The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities. The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices. The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Contributors Stephen Acabado Grace Barretto-Tesoro James M. Bayman Christine D. Beaule Christopher R. DeCorse Boyd M. Dixon John G. Douglass William R. Fowler Martin Gibbs Corinne L. Hofman Hannah G. Hoover Stacie M. King Kevin Lane Laura Matthew Sandra Montón-Subías Natalia Moragas Segura Michelle M. Pigott Christopher B. Rodning David Roe Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Steve A. Tomka Jorge Ulloa Hung Juliet Wiersema

Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Random House
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804152143

Get Book

Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas Pdf

From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem. The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims. Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives. Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.

Author : Sylvia Sellers-García
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804788823

Get Book

Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery by Sylvia Sellers-García Pdf

The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.

Author : Jose M. Escribano-Páez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000073690

Get Book

Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540 by Jose M. Escribano-Páez Pdf

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 vibrant political space where a multiplicity of figures interacted to shape power relations from below. Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles, local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in the empire’s liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy, the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions, and the mobilization of resources for war.

Author : H. Micheal Tarver,Emily Slape
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216147657

Get Book

The Spanish Empire [2 volumes] by H. Micheal Tarver,Emily Slape Pdf

Through reference entries and primary documents, this book surveys a wide range of topics related to the history of the Spanish Empire, including past events and individuals as well as the Iberian kingdom's imperial legacy. The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia provides students as well as anyone interested in Spain, Latin America, or empires in general the necessary materials to explore and better understand the centuries-long empire of the Iberian kingdom. The work is organized around eight themes to allow the reader the ability to explore each theme through an overview essay and several selected encyclopedic entries. This two-volume set includes some 180 entries that cover such topics as the caste system, dynastic rivalries, economics, major political events and players, and wars of independence. The entries provide students with essential information about the people, things, institutions, places, and events central to the history of the empire. Many of the entries also include short sidebars that highlight key facts or present fascinating and relevant trivia. Additional resources include an introductory overview, chronology, extended bibliography, and extensive collection of primary source documents.

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133554

Get Book

Empires of the Atlantic World by J. H. Elliott Pdf

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.

Author : Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971092

Get Book

The Conquest of History by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Pdf

As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with opposition in the colonies. The Conquest of History examines how historians, officials, and civic groups in Spain and its colonies forged national histories out of the ruins and relics of the imperial past. By exploring controversies over the veracity of the Black Legend, the location of Christopher Columbus’s mortal remains, and the survival of indigenous cultures, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s richly documented study shows how history became implicated in the struggles over empire. It also considers how these approaches to the past, whether intended to defend or to criticize colonial rule, called into being new postcolonial histories of empire and of nations.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar,Paula De Vos,Kristin Huffine,Kevin Sheehan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0804776334

Get Book

Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800 by Daniela Bleichmar,Paula De Vos,Kristin Huffine,Kevin Sheehan Pdf

This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.

Author : William Maltby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137041876

Get Book

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by William Maltby Pdf

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016657731

Get Book

Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

SPANISH EMPIRE by Narayan Changder Pdf

Embark on a captivating expedition through the annals of world history with our MCQ guide - "Spanish Empire Chronicles: MCQ Expedition through Global Dominion." Tailored for history enthusiasts, students, and exam aspirants, this comprehensive resource offers a curated collection of multiple-choice questions that unveil the grandeur of the Spanish Empire. Explore the age of exploration, the conquest of the Americas, and the global influence that marked this colossal empire. Delve into the cultural exchange, economic shifts, and the enduring legacy left on diverse regions across the globe. Perfect your understanding of the Spanish Empire and prepare confidently for exams. Elevate your historical acumen and immerse yourself in the complexities of global dominion with "Spanish Empire Chronicles: MCQ Expedition through Global Dominion." Uncover the secrets of the Spanish Empire with precision and depth.

Author : R. Alan Covey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0472114786

Get Book

How the Incas Built Their Heartland by R. Alan Covey Pdf

"In How the Incas Built Their Heartland R. Alan Covey supplements an archaeological approach with the tools of a historian, forming an interdisciplinary study of how the Incas became sufficiently powerful to embark on an unprecedented campaign of territorial expansion and how such developments related to earlier patterns of Andean statecraft."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436

Get Book

U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund Pdf

Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.