The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm
upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines
to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little
about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of
governance--paper--over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know
even less about how those distances were perceived and understood
by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns
and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the
Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built
and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues
that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by
people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along
routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge
accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of
the empire in Spain.
The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and
examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three
sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of
documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of
documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at
document storage and how archives played an essential part in the
flow of paper.
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