| Description |
1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Appreciations -- Content -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- I The king -- all-seeing and blind -- II. Knowledge as the ruler's postulate -- III. Strolls through the world. The epistemic setting of the court -- IV. The authorities of colonial rule -- V. Knowledge in the setting of colonial rule -- VI. Entera noticia: Ovando's project of complete knowledge -- VII. Practices of knowledge acquisition -- VIII. Consulting: scenarios for the application of knowledge -- IX. Conclusions -- Appendix |
| Summary |
How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place - but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain's colonial rule.-- Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 25, 2017) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Politics and government -- Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- Politics and government -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riemer, Jeremiah, 1952- translator.
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Translation of revised and shortened version of: Brendecke, Arndt.
Imperium und Empirie
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| LC no. |
2017302604 |
| ISBN |
9783110369908 |
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3110369907 |
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3110369842 |
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9783110369847 |
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