Republics of Difference
Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 August 2022
- ISBN 9780190233839
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 159x241x25 mm
- Weight 649 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 black and white halftones 236
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Short description:
Republics of Difference is a groundbreaking study of Spanish imperial recognition of the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including communities of Jews and Muslims, indigenous peoples, and enslaved and free peoples of African descent, that shows how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law and how this enabled communities in late medieval Spain and colonial Latin America to protect their practices and cultures over time.
MoreLong description:
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.
Republics of Difference is an ambitious and compelling study of the Iberian republic as a tool for managing religious and cultural difference and as a unit of self-governance for legal minorities. Through meticulous transatlantic analysis across a broad swath of time, Graubart reveals the fungibility of the republic as imperial strategy while underscoring how leaders and residents of diverse republics mobilized notions of difference for their own ends. Her argument that republics catalyzed early modern legal pluralism and racial thinking in the Atlantic world represents a landmark contribution to multiple fields of history.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Introduction
Part I: Space
1 Religious Republics in Seville, 1248-1502
2 Lima's Indian Republics, 1532-1650
Part II: Jurisdiction
3 Institutionalizing Legal Difference in Castile
4 Aljama, or the Republic of Difference
5 Caciques and Local Governance in the Andes
6 Pueblos de indios: Entangled Authority in the Lima Valley
Part III: Order and Disorder
7 The Specters of Black Self-Governance
8 Walls and Law in Lima and Its Cercado
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
