Republics of Difference Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World

Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World by Karen B. Graubart
English | August 5, 2022 | ISBN: 0190233834, 0190233842 | True EPUB/PDF | 368 pages | 9.9/23.7 MB
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.