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AB -  stuart b. schwartz, Yale University doi 10.1215/00182168-2641352 Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World. Edited by jason mccloskey ´ and ignacio lopez alemany. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University Press, 2013. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xxii, 246 pp. Cloth, $85.00. This is a fascinating collection of essays by different authors who, by means of careful examinations of texts, shed light on the nature, status, and practice of power in sixteenthand early seventeenth-century Spain. Two pieces, one dealing with Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and, especially, one focused on the writings of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, address Spain's relationships to the territories it had conquered in the New World. Three of the ´ contributions (by Anne J. Cruz, Ignacio Lopez Alemany, and Jason McCloskey, respectively) were first presented as lectures at a 2009 symposium organized in connection with the exhibition Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, curated by Ronda Kasl. I mention the circumstance of this important exhibition as background and source because a striking characteristic of this compilation is that many of its essays make use of visual materials, especially paintings, and, in some cases, this 
TI - Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World
JF - Hispanic American Historical Review
DO - 10.1215/00182168-2641361
DA - 2014-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/signs-of-power-in-habsburg-spain-and-the-new-world-uJB8RqlOu8
SP - 315
VL - 94
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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