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Polycentric Monarchies - How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? (Paperback)
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Polycentric Monarchies - How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? (Paperback)
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Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa
and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal
became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580
and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an
almost global hegemony, constituting the largest political force in
Europe and abroad. Although they lost their political primacy in
the seventeenth century, both monarchies survived and were able to
enjoy a relative success until the early 19th century. The aim of
this collection is to answer the question how and why their
cultural and political legacies persist to date. Part I focuses on
the construction of the monarchy, examining the ways different
territories integrated in the imperial network mainly by inquiring
to what extent local political elites maintained their autonomy,
and to what a degree they shared power with the royal
administration. Part II deals primarily with the circulation of
ideas, models and people, observing them as they move in space but
also as they coincide in the court, which was a veritable melting
pot in which the various administrations that served the Kings and
the various territories belonging to the monarchy developed their
own identities, fought for recognition, and for what they
considered their proper place in the global hierarchy. Part III
explains the forms of dependence and symbiosis established with
other European powers, such as Genoa and the United Provinces.
Attempting to reorient the politics of these states, political and
financial co-dependence often led to bad economic choices. The
Editors and Contributors discard the portrayal of the Iberian
monarchies as the accumulation of many bilateral relations arranged
in a radial pattern, arguing that these political entities were
polycentric, that is to say, they allowed for the existence of many
different centres which interacted and thus participated in the
making of empire. The resulting political structure was complex and
unstable, albeit with a general adhesion to a discourse of loyalty
to King and religion.
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