From Al-Andalus to the Americas
Subtitle: Destruction and Construction of Societies
Publisher: BRILL; Brill
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9789004363328
Subjects: Spain, colonies; Spain, history
Description: This book offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume.