ABSTRACT
The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under their rule.
Featuring innovative work from leading historians of the Iberian world, the book adopts a strong transnational and comparative approach, and offers the reader an interdisciplinary lens through which to view the interactions, entanglements, and conflicts between the many peoples that were part of it. The volume also analyses the relationships and mutual influences between the wide range of actors, polities, and centres of power within the Iberian monarchies, and draws on recent advances in the field to examine key aspects such as Iberian expansion, imperial ideologies, and the constitution of colonial societies.
Divided into four parts and combining a chronological approach with a set of in-depth thematic studies, The Iberian World brings together previously disparate scholarly traditions surrounding the history of European empires and raises awareness of the global dimensions of Iberian history. It is essential reading for students and academics of early modern Spain and Portugal.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|2 pages
The Iberian peninsula (fifteenth‒seventeenth century)
chapter Chapter One|27 pages
The shaping of the Iberian polities in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries 1
chapter Chapter Nine|22 pages
The peninsular economies and the impact of globalisation (ca. 1494–1700) 1
chapter Chapter Ten|34 pages
Cultures and communication across the Iberian world (fifteenth‒seventeenth centuries) 1
part 2|2 pages
Expansion and empires (fifteenth‒seventeenth century)
chapter Chapter Thirteen|17 pages
Iberian EXPLORATIONS
chapter Chapter Twenty Two|23 pages
Artistic experiences in the Iberian world, sixteenth‒seventeenth centuries
part 3|2 pages
The eighteenth-century Iberian world
part 4|2 pages
The Iberian world in the age of revolutions