The empirical empire : Spanish colonial rule and the politics of knowledge

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...

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Main Author: Brendecke, Arndt
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2016
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
De Gruyter
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Subjects:
Frühe Neuzeit
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
HISTORY / Europe / Western
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Modern / General
Kolonialismus
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Spain > Colonies > America > History
Spain > Politics and government > 1556-1598
Spanien
Wissenszirkulation
Kolonialismus
Wissenszirkulation
Frühe Neuzeit
Spanien
ISBN:9783110375046, 3110375044
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Abstract 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.
AbstractList 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.
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.
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TableOfContents Intro -- Appreciations -- Content -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- I The king - all-seeing and blind -- 1 The spider in the web: Philip II and the Escorial -- 2 The center's eyes and ears: cognition and communication -- 3 The idea and imagery of the watchful ruler -- 4 Observation and punishment: The inquisitorial legal culture -- 5 Observation and reward: Distributive justice -- 6 The blindness of the king and the corridors of power -- II Knowledge as the ruler's postulate -- 1 Integra informatio: Empirical methods in the Late Middle Ages -- 2 Ex certa scientia: The absolutist appeal to certain knowledge -- 3 Somos informados: Linking information to decisions -- III Strolls through the world. The epistemic setting of the court -- 1 The Spanish court -- 2 Spaces of knowledge -- 3 Media of knowledge -- 4 Land recording projects in Spain -- IV The authorities of colonial rule -- 1 The Casa de la Contratación: Nautical knowledge becomes political -- 2 The Council of the Indies -- 3 Institution-building in Spanish America -- V Knowledge in the setting of colonial rule -- 1 The vigilant triangle -- 2 Beginnings of knowledge acquisition -- 3 Early initiatives: land recording, control, and participation -- 4 Objectivity as technique for control and exoneration -- 5 Listen, describe, and decide: the viceroy's court -- VI Entera noticia: Ovando's project of complete knowledge -- 1 America cannot be understood: The path to reform -- 2 The Visitator's work -- 3 Positions in the reform discourse -- 4 The Ovandian Reform's measures -- 4.1 Compiling colonial law -- 4.2 The Chief Cosmographer-Chronicler of America -- 4.3 The Law on the Permanent Description of America -- VII Practices of knowledge acquisition -- 1 Mirror on the world -- 2 Traveling science -- 3 The permanent description of America -- 4 Interrogative methods -- 5 The questions
6 The answers -- VIII Consulting: scenarios for the application of knowledge -- 1 Authorities without eyes: The dilemma of the court chronicler -- 2 Everyday decision-making: The epistemic setting of the Council -- 2.1 The little tools of colonial knowledge -- 2.2 The performance of media and mediators -- IX Conclusions -- Appendix -- 1 Abbreviations -- 2 Printed sources -- 3 Books, chapters, and journal articles -- 4 Index
VIII. Consulting: scenarios for the application of knowledge --
Appreciations --
V. Knowledge in the setting of colonial rule --
IX. Conclusions --
II. Knowledge as the ruler’s postulate --
Illustrations --
III. Strolls through the world. The epistemic setting of the court --
VI. Entera noticia: Ovando’s project of complete knowledge --
Appendix
I The king – all-seeing and blind --
Content --
VII. Practices of knowledge acquisition --
Frontmatter --
IV. The authorities of colonial rule --
Introduction --
Title The empirical empire : Spanish colonial rule and the politics of knowledge
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