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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Spanish Empire"”.
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… the construction of religious practice in the Spanish Empire. I focus upon plays that reinterpret the Biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son to argue that the Society of Jesus utilized the stage to acquire religious authority over the domestic sphere and to promote paradigms of masculinity that …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… of the world-economy. In this region, the Spanish Empire obtained large quantities of silver and produced the main international trade currency used between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Potosi-Cobija route was one of the most significant scenes of colonial commerce and smuggling in the …
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Republican ideals and the reality of patronage: a study of the Veterans’ Movement in Cuba, 1900-24
… this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture and fission under the emerging power of the United States, but also the impact that this had on Cuban politics, and the consequences for Cuba’s native would-be rulers. The aim is to develop an understanding of what …
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Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700
… by demonstrating that the Guaraní among the Spanish were just as influential as their counterparts in the missions in shaping the process by which they assumed new ethnic identities (or ethnogenesis) in Christian communities. Moreover, Guaraní social norms deeply influenced colonials and …
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The historicity of the chroniclers on the conquest of Mexico.
… added the vast region of Central Mexico to the Spanish Empire. As it is impossible to make a comprehensive study of so lengthy a period of history, this discussion will be limited chiefly to Cortés' first trip to Mexico and to his final siege of the Aztec capital, covering a period of …
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Persons, Houses, and Material Possessions: Second Spanish Period St. Augustine Society
… order. St. Augustine was a unique city in the Spanish Empire; the realities of frontier living meant that inter-ethnic connection were common and often necessary for survival and social advancement. Inhabitants enjoyed a high degree of social mobility based on wealth rather than ethnicity or …
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The Council of the Indies and Religion in the Spanish New World
… Indies was responsible for the governing of the Spanish Empire, including issues of religion. During the reign of Philip II, the Council gained independence from the Council of Castile and was able to take more control of the Spanish territories. In response to outside factors, the Council …
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From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
The endeavors of the colonial enterprise of the Spanish empire are often attributed to men while women are given secondary importance; yet women were greatly involved in the religious education and conversion of indigenous girls. Religious laywomen, or beatas, served as religious teachers to …
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“Quisiera ver los que suelen componer estos libros de pastores donde todo es primavera”: campo literario y literatura del campo en España y la América colonial (1516-1808)
… to the New World since the accession to the Spanish throne of Charles I in 1516 until the infamous abdication of Charles IV in 1808. My analysis of hegemonic intellectual production shows how the bureaucracy conceived the displacement and concealment of the working class and populations of …
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Articulations of Empire and the Nation: Christopher Columbus in Nineteenth-Century Spain, Italy, the United States and Spanish America
… Columbus is a figure inevitably associated with empire. After a brief review of the Columbian literary tradition in Spain and Italy from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, chapters two and three focus on Columbian discourse in Spain and Italy, respectively, around the time of 1892 …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… to define its meaning from the time of the Spanish Empire to the postmodern era. As a phenomenon resulting from cross-cultural encounters, hybridity has always posed a danger to fixed categorizations of identity, and thus a variety of discourses of hybridity have surfaced across different …
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Native Andeans in the frontier city: A new conquest history of urban Peru, 1535-1700
Using the imbrication of urban space and empire as a lens, this dissertation traces the emergence and making of a frontier city through an examination of sixteenth and seventeenth century Lima, Peru. By examining ongoing spatial conflicts in the viceregal capital and most important city in Spain’s …
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At the Confluence of Science and Power: Water Struggles of New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
… ultimately having influence. Under the fading Spanish empire, from the age of Jefferson to the era of Jacksonian democracy, during the Civil War and Reconstruction, through the dawn of Progressivism: New Orleans confronted the problems of flood prevention, drainage, the omni-present need for a …
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British Foreign Policy Under Canning
… its own political reform and civil war. The Spanish Empire in the Americas was reaching the end of a long process of gaining independence. Canning moved slowly but surely to recognize these new republics, and worked to prevent other European powers from seizing them. Canning recognized these …
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British Foreign Policy Under Canning
… its own political reform and civil war. The Spanish Empire in the Americas was reaching the end of a long process of gaining independence. Canning moved slowly but surely to recognize these new republics, and worked to prevent other European powers from seizing them. Canning recognized these …
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Negotiated survival: an archaeological and documentary investigation of colonialism in Beneficios Altos, Yucatan, Mexico
… Yucatán peninsula were colonized subjects of the Spanish empire from 1546 until 1821. Often, the events of nearly three centuries are viewed as a singular struggle between European hegemonies and a monolithic indigenous community that oscillated between passivity and rebellion. This dissertation …
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Rebels of Laicacota: Spaniards, Indians, and Andean Mestizos in Southern Peru During the Mid -Colonial Crisis of 1650--1680
… alleged rebellion by the Salcedo brothers (Spanish miners), and their mestizo militia in the Laicacota mining district of Southern Peru. A conflict between mining entrepreneurs of different Iberian origins, it was initially a Basque-Andalusian rivalry for the control of what was for a decade …
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The diffusion of public banking initiatives in Europe, 1500–1650
… capillary diffusion of the taula-model in the Spanish Empire under Philip II (Ch. 3), examine the intertwined paths that led to the establishment of public banks in Europe between the 1580s–1650s starting from a Spanish perspective (Ch. 4) and, ultimately, identify the main trends and …
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Essays in economic development and political economy
… subjected districts today. Using data from the Spanish Empire and Peruvian Republic to trace channels of institutional persistence, I show that the mita's influence has persisted through its impacts on land tenure and public goods provision. Mita districts historically had fewer large landowners …
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Making the ocean : global space, sailor practice, and bureaucratic archives in the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire
… marine world as agents of the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire. The hard-won pragmatic and empirical expertise on which they relied developed in an uneasy tension with the priorities of the bureaucracy centered at the Casa de la Contratación in Seville. In the Atlantic, bureaucratic …
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