This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the old regime that provided agents with legitimacy and resources for their actions, occurred mainly within the established jurisdictional system. These resources for litigation and demand made resistance a widespread kind of contesting practice related to wider protests.
The authors assess the wide array of actions developed by individuals and communities to preserve their rights and identities, demonstrating how the Portuguese and Hispanic polities and their colonial possessions experienced resistance from below over a long period of change that marked the rise of more complex communities and institutional systems. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of forms and expressions of resistance developed in different social, cultural, and territorial contexts, thus shedding additional light on the relationship between order and conflict within early modern European empires.
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Chapter 1: Resistance in the Early Modern Iberian Empires: Historicizing
an Entangled, Contentious Social Practice.- Part I: Background: The Medieval
Roots of Early Modern Resistance
Chapter 2: Disobedience, Resistance and
Restoration of the Social Order in Castile and Leon in the Middle Ages:
Customary Practices in the Face of Power.
Chapter 3: The Global Impact of
the Early Modern Thomistic Revolution and the Scholastic Grammars of Daily
Resistance within Institutions.- Part II. Exchanges: Communities and
Resistance from the Urban Centers to the Iberian Borderlands in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries.
Chapter 4: The Unending Conquest: Indigenous
Resistance in the Chilean Borders, 1553-1604.
Chapter 5: The Cry for
Freedom: Between Resistance and Political Action in Castile at the End of the
Middle Ages, 1450-1520.
Chapter 6: Vernacular Political Practices and
Everyday Forms of Resistance: Frontier Communities in the Spanish-Portuguese
Borderlands during the Seventeenth Century.
Chapter 7: Resistance,
Opposition and Accommodation to the Portuguese in Sixteenth-century
Asia.- Part III. Roles: The Shaping of Identities through Resistance in the
Seventeenth Century.
Chapter 8: The Triumph of Temperance: Power,
Negotiation and Resistance in Royal Entries in Portugal during the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries.
Chapter 9: Male Violence and Female Resistance in
the Sacrament of Penance: Accounts Before the Inquisitorial Tribunals in
Colonial America during the Seventeenth Century.
Chapter 10: Urban Outcasts
Facing Adversity: A Plebeian Culture of Resistance and Resilience in
Seventeenth-century Spain.
Chapter 11: Missionary Villages as Spaces of
Resistance.
Chapter 12: We Have Not Been Tributaries: Perus Black
Community, Historical Memory, and Resistance.- Part IV. Dynamics: Resisting
Iberian Imperialism through the Eighteenth-century Reforms.
Chapter 13:
Policy and Indigenous Policies in the Age of Enlightenment: Agreements and
Resistance Between Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of
Differences.
Chapter 14: Cross-cultural Interactions, Indigenous Agency and
Resistance in the Borderlands of the Upper Paraguay Basin.
Chapter 15:
Between Rebellion and Resistance: Guild Government, Ancient Liberty and
Plebeian Estate in the Catalonia of the Nueva Planta.
Chapter 16: Political
Conflict in the Indigenous and Urban Worlds in the Late Colonial Andes.-
Chapter 17: Precarious Freedoms: Slaves in Cuba between the Late Eighteenth
and the Early Nineteenth Centuries.
Chapter 18: Everyday Resistance in Late
Colonial Buenos Aires: A View From Judicial Sources.- Part V. Afterword.-
Chapter 19: Final Thoughts on Entangled Resistances from the Early Modern
Iberian Empires.
Pablo Sįnchez León is a researcher at the CHAM - Centro de Humanidades at Universidad NOVA de Lisboa in Portugal. His research revolves around social conflicts in the Spanish monarchy from the late Middle Ages through the early modern period in comparative perspective.
Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant is a Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cantabria in Spain. Her research delves into cross-cultural interactions and Indigenous resistance in the frontiers of the Iberian empires, focusing on northern Paraguay, Mato Grosso, and the Chaco regions.
