A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668
Deardorff, Max
In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as unequal and unqualified, unleashing an intense political battle that lasted almost two decades. At stake was whether membership in the small colonial community and thus access to its most lucrative professions should depend on limpieza de sangre (blood purity) or values-based integration (Christian citizenship). A Tale of Two Granadas examines the vast, trans-Atlantic transformation of political ideas about subjecthood that ultimately allowed some colonial mestizos and indios ladinos (acculturated natives) to establish urban citizenship alongside Spaniards in colonial Santafé de Bogotá and Tunja. In a spirit of comparison, it illustrates how some of the descendants of Spain's last Muslims appealed to the same new conceptions of citizenship to avoid disenfranchisement in the face of growing prejudice.
Κατηγορίες:
Τόμος:
130
Έτος:
2023
Εκδότης:
Cambridge University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
338
ISBN 10:
1009335421
ISBN 13:
9781009335423
Σειρές:
Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 130
Αρχείο:
PDF, 9.26 MB
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english, 2023