in José Manuel Santos Pérez (ed.), Intercambios culturales y “castellanización” en Brasil durante la Unión de Coronas, 1580-1640, Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2024, pp. 21-80., 2024
in José Manuel Santos Pérez (ed.), Intercambios culturales y “castellanización” en Brasil durante la Unión de Coronas, 1580-1640, Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2024, pp. 21-80., 2024
From the beginning of the European overseas expansion into the Atlantic in the 15th century onwar... more From the beginning of the European overseas expansion into the Atlantic in the 15th century onward, Europeans had to figure how to govern the newly conquered lands and peoples across Africa and the Americas. Western European polities transplanted to their Atlantic territories forms of governance already tested within the European context, but institutions of colonial governance were built in fits and starts and constantly adapted to local demands and characteristics. American elites sought and sometimes achieved a relationship with the imperial center that could be similar to the one experienced by European local elites. However, Old World models of government were deeply transformed by distance, by environmental conditions, and, above all, by the variety of peoples that were under European rule. Atlantic governance involved the (often violent) seizure of substantial portions of the American and (in a much lesser scale) African and Asian lands, along with the transfer of people of E...
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