Defining nations : immigrants and citizens in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Tamar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Spain--Castile--History--18th century.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Spain--Colonies--History--18th century.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 352 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or that they were artificially imagined, Herzog reexamines early modern categories of belonging. She argues that the distinction between those who were Spaniards and those who were foreigners came about as local communities distinguished between immigrants who were judged to be willing to take on the rights and duties of membership in that community and those who were not.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Vecindad: Citizenship in Local Communities

3. Vecindad: From Castile to Spanish America

4. Naturaleza: The Community of the Kingdom

5. Naturaleza: From Castile to Spanish America

6. The Other: Conversos, Gypsies, Foreign Catholics, and Foreign Vassals

7. The Crisis of an Empire

8. Was Spain Exceptional?

9. Conclusions and Afterthoughts

Abbreviations

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-321) and index.

ISBN:

9786611722272

9781281722270

1281722278

9780300129830

0300129831

OCLC:

1013962797