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Distance and documents at the Spanish Empire's periphery /
Sellers-Garcia examines how distance was conceptualised in an empire that at its height spanned four continents, stretching from Europe to the Philippines. Distance mediated most aspects of how the Spanish empire functioned, but we know little about how it was envisioned and understood. This book ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sellers-Garcia examines how distance was conceptualised in an empire that at its height spanned four continents, stretching from Europe to the Philippines. Distance mediated most aspects of how the Spanish empire functioned, but we know little about how it was envisioned and understood. This book argues that documents, particularly official documents, were crucial to overcoming long distances. Focusing on Guatemala, a part of the empire that has long been considered 'peripheral', the book examines how the creation, movement, and storage of documents reflect particular conceptions of distance. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804788823 0804788820 9780804787055 0804787050 |