, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Paperback, 232 Pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, Spanish, *new. ISBN 9782503611211.
This volume is a collection of reflections from leading senior and junior historians regarding the merits of historical comparativism in the field of Iberian history. The first purpose of the book is to encourage a dialogue between scholars of the Iberian Empires and to foster a reconsider how they see the broader history of the early modern world in light of recent historiography. The second aim of the book is to prompt scholars of other regions in global history to consider the recent literature on the Iberian Empires anew, to move beyond the tropes of the Black Legend and narrative of growth, splendour, and decline, and to study those imbrications had connected disparate parts of the world and which the postcolonial turn has unearthed. In a series of articles and interviews, contributors were encouraged to consider the role of linguistic divides in the growth of historiographical strands, and to speak plainly about the possible siloes that have emerged in the field. Contributors discuss the Atlantic turn, corporate cultures, the Catholic adoption of Protestant ideals, gender and race, all while drawing on insights from scholars who work on early modern nuns, the material history of sugar and coffee, or those who are exploring the uses of the concept of barbarity in borderlands. TABLE OF CONTENTS Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, and UNED, Madrid) Introduction: Who Prayed for the Iberian World? Incomparable Empires & Global History Tamar Herzog (Harvard University) Is Spain Exceptional? Reflections on Thirty Years of Research and Writing Pedro Cardim (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Corporations, normative pluralism, and jurisdictions in early modern Iberia: The potential and the limitations of an interpretive framework Marcos Reguera (Universidad del Pa s Vasco) From Manifest Destiny to ?destino manifiesto?: the Hispanic Reception and Formulations of Manifest Destiny Bethany Aram (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) Comparative approaches to gender, ethnicity and empires: Britain & Spain Marta Manzanares (Universidad Aut noma de Madrid) Rethinking the Place of Sugar in Eighteenth-Century Spain Fabien Montcher (University of St. Louis) Imperial Blind Spots: Indeterminacy and Thickness across the Iberian Monarchies David Mart n Marcos (UNED) Rustics and Barbarians: Otherness and Counter-hegemony in the Early Modern Iberian World Interviews: Bartolom Yun-Casalilla (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Amanda Scott (Pennsilvania State University), Juan Pimentel (CSIC), Jos Maria Portillo (Universidad del Pa s Vasco), Maria Gago (European University Institute), Javier Rodr guez (Universidad Aut noma de Madrid), and Thiago Krause (Wayne State University)