Republics of difference : religious and racial self-governance in the Spanish Atlantic world / Karen B. Graubart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graubart, Karen B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Spain--Seville--History.

Minorities.

Black people--Legal status, laws, etc--Peru--Lima--History.

Black people.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--Peru--Lima--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Politics and government.

Race relations.

Spanish colonies.

Spain--Politics and government--1516-1700.

Spain.

Spain--Colonies--South America--Politics and government.

Spain--Race relations--History.

Peru--Lima.

South America.

Spain--Seville.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire. Republics of Difference examines fifteenth-century Seville and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lima to show how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law, what effects it had on communities, and why it mattered. By comparing these minoritized communities on both sides of the Spanish Atlantic world, this study offers a new understanding of the distinct standings of those communities in their urban settings. Drawing on legal and commercial records from late medieval Spain and colonial Latin America, Karen B. Graubart paints insightful portraits of residents' everyday lives to underscore the discriminatory barriers as well as the occupational structures, social hierarchies, and networks in which they flourished. In doing so, she demonstrates the limits, benefits, and dangers of living under one's own law in the Spanish empire, including the ways self-governance enabled some communities to protect their practices and cultures over time."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Part 1: Space

Religious Republics in Seville, 1248-1502

Lima's Indian Republics, 1532-1650

Part 2: Jurisdiction

Institutionalizing Legal Difference in Castile

Aljama, or the Republic of Difference

Caciques and Local Governance in the Andes

Pueblos de indios: Entangled Authority in the Lima Valley

Part 3: Order and Disorder

The Specters of Black Self-Governance

Walls and Law in Lima and Its Cercado.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.291-322) and index.

ISBN:

9780190233846

0190233842

0190233834

9780190233839

OCLC:

1309867361

Publisher Number:

99993426894