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    Release Year
    2015
    ISBN
    9780674735385
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Harvard University Press
    ISBN-10
    0674735382
    ISBN-13
    9780674735385
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    201670537

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Frontiers of Possession : Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
    Number of Pages
    400 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Europe / Spain & Portugal, Imperialism, World / European, International Relations / General, Legal History, Latin America / General
    Publication Year
    2015
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Law, Political Science, History
    Author
    Tamar Herzog
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.1 in
    Item Weight
    28.4 Oz
    Item Length
    1 in
    Item Width
    0.7 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2014-009292
    Reviews
    The best account we now have of the long legal and political rivalry between the world's first modern imperial powers., Herzog succeeds in her aim of moving beyond the usually separate histories of Spain and Portugal--and of Europe and the Americas--to complicate the accepted understanding of national and imperial boundaries as immutable facts rather than as ongoing sites of contestation.
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Dewey Decimal
    946.0009/03
    Synopsis
    Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and Portuguese claims in the New and Old Worlds, Tamar Herzog reconstructs the different ways land rights were negotiated and enforced, sometimes violently, among people who remembered old possessions or envisioned new ones: farmers and nobles, clergymen and missionaries, settlers and indigenous peoples. Questioning the habitual narrative that sees the Americas as a logical extension of the Old World, Herzog portrays Spain and Portugal on both sides of the Atlantic as one unified imperial space. She begins in the Americas, where Iberian conquerors had to decide who could settle the land, who could harvest fruit and cut timber, and who had river rights for travel and trade. The presence of indigenous peoples as enemies to vanquish or allies to befriend, along with the vastness of the land, complicated the picture, as did the promise of unlimited wealth. In Europe, meanwhile, the formation and re-formation of boundaries could last centuries, as ancient entitlements clashed with evolving economic conditions and changing political views and juridical doctrines regarding how land could be acquired and maintained. Herzog demonstrates that the same fundamental questions had to be addressed in Europe and in the Americas. Territorial control was always subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders, in their quotidian interactions, carved out and defended new frontiers of possession., Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.
    LC Classification Number
    DP84.H47 2015

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