Book Series Habsburg Worlds, vol. 8

Supplicant Empires

Searching for the Iberian World in Global History

Edward Jones Corredera (ed)

  • Pages: approx. 250 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Language(s):English, Spanish
  • Publication Year:2025


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BIO

Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) and a Lecturer at the UNED (Madrid).

Summary

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, corporative 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 País 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 Autónoma 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 Martín Marcos (UNED)
Rústicos y bárbaros: alteridad y contrahegemonía en el mundo ibérico durante la Edad Moderna

Interviews:
Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Amanda Scott (Pennsilvania State University), Juan Pimentel (CSIC), José Maria Portillo (Universidad del País Vasco), Maria Gago (European University Institute), Javier Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), and Thiago Krause (Princeton/UNIRIO)