The Empirical Empire : : Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge /

The Empirical Empire : : Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge / / Arndt Brendecke.

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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 knowledg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
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Brendecke, Arndt,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 322 p.)
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Table of 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

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