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Arndt Brendecke
The Empirical Empire [EPUB ebook]
Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge

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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 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.

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Arndt Brendecke, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 333 ● ISBN 9783110395815 ● File size 10.7 MB ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Basel/Berlin/Boston ● Published 2016 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6585250 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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