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The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (2016)

Brendecke, Arndt (Author)

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 9783110375046

Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 333
Language: English

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Science and politics Colonialism Spain, colonies Imperialism Empiricism 17th century 16th century Spain

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place - but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain's colonial rule.

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Review Vera Keller (2019) Review of "The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 296-298). unapi

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