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Polycentric Monarchies. How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony , written by Pedro Cardim, Tamar Herzog, Jose Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, and Gaetano Sabatini

Polycentric Monarchies. How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global... Polycentric Monarchies. How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony , Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2012, 230 pp. isbn 978-1-845-19544-1, $74.95. “Having succeeded in establishing their presence throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early sixteenth century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640 [. . .] they achieved an almost global hegemony” (3). What mechanisms then favored their expansion, the maintenance of internal cohesion, and the inhibition of their rivals? Two perspectives have been fairly common in the study of both monarchies. Some historians have tried to analyze their different territories separately, following a “national” narrative, as if Belgium or Mexico were already “out there,” in the seventeenth century. Other historians have studied them either as composite monarchies (following John Elliott), or according to the notion of center-periphery, as metropolis vs. colonial territories (in the wake of Immanuel Wallerstein.) Politics seemed consequently to be played only in the political center, which then negotiated with the local elites of the peripheries. The editors think differently: “Rather than portraying the Iberian Monarchies as the accumulation of many bilateral relations arranged in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Modern History Brill

Polycentric Monarchies. How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony , written by Pedro Cardim, Tamar Herzog, Jose Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, and Gaetano Sabatini

Díaz, José María Cardesín
Journal of Early Modern History , Volume 19 (5): 466 – Sep 2, 2015
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Polycentric Monarchies. How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony , Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2012, 230 pp. isbn 978-1-845-19544-1, $74.95. “Having succeeded in establishing their presence throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early sixteenth century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640 [. . .] they achieved an almost global hegemony” (3). What mechanisms then favored their expansion, the maintenance of internal cohesion, and the inhibition of their rivals? Two perspectives have been fairly common in the study of both monarchies. Some historians have tried to analyze their different territories separately, following a “national” narrative, as if Belgium or Mexico were already “out there,” in the seventeenth century. Other historians have studied them either as composite monarchies (following John Elliott), or according to the notion of center-periphery, as metropolis vs. colonial territories (in the wake of Immanuel Wallerstein.) Politics seemed consequently to be played only in the political center, which then negotiated with the local elites of the peripheries. The editors think differently: “Rather than portraying the Iberian Monarchies as the accumulation of many bilateral relations arranged in

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