Being the heart of the world the Pacific and the fashioning of the self in new Spain, 1513-1641
Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The discoverer : legal struggles over the Pacific Northwest -- The veteran : capitalizing on knowledge of the routes between the Indies -- The meritorious : rootedness and mobility in the Pacific Basin -- The Creole : distributing royal patronage on the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, New York
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
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ca. 1492 bis ca. 1808 (Spanische Frühneuzeit)
> Identity (Philosophical concept)
> Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
> Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
> HISTORY / Latin America / General
> History of the Americas
> Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik
> Spanisch
> New Spain
> Emigration and immigration
> Commerce
> Mexico
> Pacific Area
> Relations
> Spain
> Colonies
> Mexiko
> Spanien
> Kolonialismus
> Geschichte 1513-1641
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| Zusammenfassung: | Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The discoverer : legal struggles over the Pacific Northwest -- The veteran : capitalizing on knowledge of the routes between the Indies -- The meritorious : rootedness and mobility in the Pacific Basin -- The Creole : distributing royal patronage on the Western religious itinerary to Asia -- The merchant : debating transpacific trade and the functioning of the economy of favor -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Sources and bibliography -- Index. "Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire"-- In this timely book Nino Vallen tells the story of New Spain's gradual integration into the Pacific Basin and challenges established views about identity formation among the elites of colonial Mexico. It examines how discussions about the establishment and desirability of transpacific connections interacted with more general debates over why some people deserved certain benefits over others. As part of these struggles, New Spain's changing place at the crossroads of transatlantic and transpacific routes became a subject of contention between actors moved by competing notions of a deserving self: the learned councillor, the veteran, the discoverer, the meritorious, the creole and the merchant. Reassessing current historiographical narratives on creole identities and worldviews, Being the Heart of the World contributes to a broader understanding of the early modern self and the ways in which it was shaped by the mobilities of an increasingly globalized world |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 247 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781009322072 978-1-009-32207-2 9781009322041 978-1-009-32204-1 |