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Rethinking Politics in the Global Spanish Empire. Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

Mon, May 30, 2:30 to 4:00pm, TBA

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How was politics conceptualized and negotiated in the Spanish empire? Drawing on case-studies from the Philippines, Peru, New Granada, and theoretical debates over the state of the empire, this panel discusses how the Spanish monarchy redesigned its political structure to expand to the New World and how the Indies in turn redefined the meaning of empire from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The panel aims to rethink how politics worked in the Spanish empire by illustrating the mutually-constitutive dialogue at the “local” and “imperial” levels, and by revisiting the dynastic change as a radical turnaround in governance.

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