Published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, this volume explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker's work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that…mehr
Published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, this volume explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker's work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire.
Contents: Geoffrey Parker and early modern history Tonio Andrade and William Reger; The limits of empire: an introduction Tonio Andrade and William Reger; 'Por Dios por patria': the sacral limits of empire as seen in Catalan political sermons 1630-1641 Andrew Mitchell; Enlightened absolutism and new frontiers for political authority: building towards a state religion in 18th-century Spain Andrea J. Smidt; The limits of faith in a maritime empire: Mennonites trade and politics in the Dutch Golden Age Mary S. Sprunger; Information gossip and rumor: the limits of intelligence at the early modern court 1558-1585 Denice Fett; Philip II information overload and the early modern moment Paul M. Dover; Italy and the limits of the Spanish empire Michael J. Levin; The limits of dynastic power: Poland-Lithuania Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy in the age of the Vasas 1562-1668 Robert I. Frost; The artillery fortress was an engine of European expansion: evidence from East Asia Tonio Andrade; The limits of empire: the case of Britain Jeremy Black; The façade of order: claiming imperial space in early modern Russia Matthew P. Romaniello; Renaissance diplomacy and the limits of empire: Eustace Chapuys Habsburg imperialisms and dissimulation as method Richard Lundell; Distance and misinformation in the conquest of America Bethany Aram; Brawling behaviors in the Dutch colonial empire: changing norms of fairness? Pamela McVay; Isabel Clara Eugenia: daughter of the Spanish empire Cristina Borreguero Beltrán; Messianic imperialism or traditional dynasticism? The grand strategy of Philip II and the Spanish failure in the wars of the 1590s Edward Shannon Tenace; 'A man's gotta know his limitations': reflections on a misspent past Geoffrey Parker; Index.
Contents: Geoffrey Parker and early modern history Tonio Andrade and William Reger; The limits of empire: an introduction Tonio Andrade and William Reger; 'Por Dios por patria': the sacral limits of empire as seen in Catalan political sermons 1630-1641 Andrew Mitchell; Enlightened absolutism and new frontiers for political authority: building towards a state religion in 18th-century Spain Andrea J. Smidt; The limits of faith in a maritime empire: Mennonites trade and politics in the Dutch Golden Age Mary S. Sprunger; Information gossip and rumor: the limits of intelligence at the early modern court 1558-1585 Denice Fett; Philip II information overload and the early modern moment Paul M. Dover; Italy and the limits of the Spanish empire Michael J. Levin; The limits of dynastic power: Poland-Lithuania Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy in the age of the Vasas 1562-1668 Robert I. Frost; The artillery fortress was an engine of European expansion: evidence from East Asia Tonio Andrade; The limits of empire: the case of Britain Jeremy Black; The façade of order: claiming imperial space in early modern Russia Matthew P. Romaniello; Renaissance diplomacy and the limits of empire: Eustace Chapuys Habsburg imperialisms and dissimulation as method Richard Lundell; Distance and misinformation in the conquest of America Bethany Aram; Brawling behaviors in the Dutch colonial empire: changing norms of fairness? Pamela McVay; Isabel Clara Eugenia: daughter of the Spanish empire Cristina Borreguero Beltrán; Messianic imperialism or traditional dynasticism? The grand strategy of Philip II and the Spanish failure in the wars of the 1590s Edward Shannon Tenace; 'A man's gotta know his limitations': reflections on a misspent past Geoffrey Parker; Index.
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