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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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Appendix
1 Abbreviations
| ACA | Archivo de la Corona de Aragón |
| AGI | Archivo General de Indias |
| AGN | Archivo General de la Nación |
| AGS | Archivo General de Simancas |
| AHN | Archivo Histórico Nacional |
| BFZ | Biblioteca Francisco Zabálburu |
| BL | British Library, London |
| BME | Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial |
| BNE | Biblioteca Nacional de España |
| BPR | Biblioteca de Palacio Real |
| BPT | Biblioteca Pública, Toledo |
| CODOIN–1 | Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y colonización de las antiguas posesiones españolas de América y Oceania. Madrid 1864–1884, ND Vaduz 1964–1966. |
| CODOIN–2 | Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organización de las antiguas posesiones españolas de ultramar. Segunda serie. 25 Bde. Madrid 1885–1932, ND Nendeln 1967. |
| CODOIN–3 | Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de Hispano-América. Madrid 1927–1932. |
| CODOIN–E | Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España. 112 Bde. Madrid 1842–1895. |
| CODODES | Colección documental del descubrimiento (1470–1506). 3 Bde. Madrid 1994. |
| IVDJ | Instituto Valencia de Don Juan |
| NCODOIN | Nueva colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España y de sus Indias. 6 Bde. Madrid 1892–1896. |
| RAH | Real Academia de la Historia |
2Printed sources
Abril Stoffels, Miguel J., ed. “Junta Magna de 1568, resoluciones e instrucciones [fundación de la inquisición limeña]” In Francisco de la Cruz: Inquisición: Actas II, 1, edited by Miguel J. Abril Stoffels and Vidal Abril Castelló, 129–194. Madrid: CSIC, 1996.
Acuña, René, ed. Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI. 10 vols. Mexico City: UNAM, 1982–1988.
Albertinus, Aegidius. Emblemata hieropolitica versibus et prosa illustrabat Ioannes Melitanus a Corylo, Cologne: Konstantin Münich, 1647.
Arias Montano, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- I The king – all-seeing and blind
- II Knowledge as the ruler’s postulate
- III Strolls through the world. The epistemic setting of the court
- IV The authorities of colonial rule
- V Knowledge in the setting of colonial rule
- VI Entera noticia: Ovando’s project of complete knowledge
- VII Practices of knowledge acquisition
- VIII Consulting: scenarios for the application of knowledge
- IX Conclusions
- Appendix
- Endnotes
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