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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.
A true story of violence, punishment, and a transformative moment in Guatemalan history that "deftly ranges across Italian iconography, Maya cosmovision, casta paintings, Enlightenment urbanism, conceptions of death, masculinity, gender violence, crime and punishment, and the growth of the state." (Laura Matthew, Hispanic American Historical Review) On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, The Woman on the Windowsill pinpoints the last decade of the eighteenth-century as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history, when the nature of justice changed dramatically. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia reveals how this bizarre and macabre event came with an increased attention to crime that resulted in more forceful policing and reflected important policy decisions not only in Guatemala but throughout the Spanish Empire. This engaging true crime story serves as a backdrop for the broader consideration of the forces shaping Guatemala City at the brink of the modern era.
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