Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780190233846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str.

Karen B. Graubart

Recenzje

The greatest strength of Republics of Difference is its impressive breadth, bringing together and drawing out the commonalities and cleavages of Spanish institutional and spatial structures and experiences of difference from the thirteenth to the early seventeenth century. The work stitches together a wealth of sources, stories, and places... Many of the communities studied are often the focus of nationally bound historiographies; thus the book sheds light on how race, status, and local context profoundly remade the legal, economic, and social worlds of Spanish subjects whom the early modern church and state defined as 'different' across the empire. This impressive book will be of great interest to scholars and students of race, religion, law, and politics in late medieval Spain, colonial Latin America, and the early modern African diaspora.

O autorze

Karen B. Graubart is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of the award-winning With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700.