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Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Royal Officials in the Making of the Spanish Empire (1580-1700).

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Title/Author:	Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Royal Officials in the Making of the Spanish Empire (1580-1700)./
Author:	Polo y La Borda, Adolfo.
Description:	1 online resource (339 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	History. -
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ISBN:	9780355369014

Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Royal Officials in the Making of the Spanish Empire (1580-1700).
Polo y La Borda, Adolfo.

Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Royal Officials in the Making of the Spanish Empire (1580-1700). - 1 online resource (339 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the worldwide mobility of seventeenth-century Spanish imperial officials who traveled around the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. My study focuses on the lower echelon of imperial officials in order to demonstrate how their experiences of service to the king in a variety of locales affected the the governance of the Spanish Empire and how such a polity was imagined by these officials as a global, yet connected and coherent unity. I argue that the officials' circulation was central for the cohesion and stability of the empire. It allowed the actual and imagined overcoming of the far-flung geography of Spain's empire and the incorporation, and sometimes exclusion, of diverse subjects across the globe. The intense and extensive mobility of the officials permitted the consolidation of certain imperial political practices, values, and patterns of rule and administration, which played a decisive role in the emergence of a common imperial identity built from the ground up. This imperial identity worked to give cohesion to a polity as heterogeneous as the Spanish Empire. Imperial official's interactions with very different peoples and cultures spawned a cosmopolitan imperial culture that unified the many cultural, geographic, demographic, and social peculiarities of diverse societies under the umbrella of the imperial mission of enforcement, defense, and expansion of the crown's rule and spread of Catholicism.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355369014Subjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
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554714
Electronic books.

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