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Polycentric monarchies : how did early modern Spain and Portugal achieve and maintain a global hegemony? /

Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an almost global hegemony, constituting...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cardim, Pedro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2012.
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Red Columnaria; Editors' Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I
  • Spaces of Integration; 1: Maritime Archipelago, Political Archipelago: The Azores under the Habsburgs (1581-1640) Jean-Frédéric Schaub; 2: Architect of the New World: Juan de Solórzano Pereyra and the Status of the Americas 27 Óscar Mazín Gómez; 3: The Representatives of Asian and American Cities at the Cortes of Portugal Pedro Cardim; 4: Overseas Alliances: The English Marriage and the Peace with Holland in Bahia (1661-1725) Rodrigo Bentes Monteiro.
  • Part II
  • Spaces of Circulation5: Family, Bureaucracy and the Crown: The Wedding Market as a Form of Integration among Spanish Elites in the Early Modern Period 73 Enrique Soria Mesa; 6: From Alliance to Conflict, From Finance to Justice: A Portuguese family in Spanish Naples (1590-1660) 90 Gaetano Sabatini; 7: Trading Money and Empire Building in Spanish Milan (1570-1640) Giuseppe De Luca; 8: Visible Signs of Belonging: The Spanish Empire and the Rise of Racial Logics in the Early Modern Period Jean Paul Zúñiga.
  • 9: Can You Tell a Spaniard When You See One?: "Us" and "Them" in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic Tamar Herzog10: Comprehend, Discuss and Negotiate: Doing Politics in the Kingdom of Valencia in the Sixteenth Century Juan Francisco Pardo Molero; Part III
  • External Projections; 11: Republican Monarchies, Patrimonial Republics: The Catholic Monarchy and the Mercantile Republics of Genoa and the United Provinces Manuel Herrero Sánchez; 12: "A Thing Not Seen in Paris since Its Founding": The Spanish Garrison of 1590 to 1594 José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez.
  • Epilogue Polycentric Monarchies: Understanding the Grand Multinational Organizations of the Early Modern Period Alberto Marcos MartínThe Editors and Contributors; Index.