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Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession. Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession. Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas Lektüren Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession. Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas, Cambridge/MA, Harvard University Press 2015, 383 S. This wonderful book examines disputes over borders in the American and the Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) empires between the late fifteenth century and the twentieth century. Contrary to what one might expect, the book's aim is not to compare American and European cases, but to modify our understanding of both by bringing them together. Disputes are convincingly analyzed through a number of extended cases, which ­ especially in Europe ­ stretched over a long time span, had a complex structure, and involved a great number of actors. Chapter 1 studies the criteria according to which a territory could be attributed to Spanish or Portuguese rule. On the one hand, such attributions were based on treaties, papal bulls, and diplomatic documents; on the other, they increasingly relied on "performing jurisdictional acts" such as giving commissions, collecting taxes, or pursuing criminals, and on daily economic activities such as farming, grazing, gathering, hunting, or fishing. Both kinds of acts implied possession of the land, but they also needed to be understood and interpreted by others, whose silence could be taken http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historische Anthropologie de Gruyter

Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession. Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

Torre, Angelo
Historische Anthropologie , Volume 24 (3) – Dec 1, 2016
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Lektüren Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession. Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas, Cambridge/MA, Harvard University Press 2015, 383 S. This wonderful book examines disputes over borders in the American and the Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) empires between the late fifteenth century and the twentieth century. Contrary to what one might expect, the book's aim is not to compare American and European cases, but to modify our understanding of both by bringing them together. Disputes are convincingly analyzed through a number of extended cases, which ­ especially in Europe ­ stretched over a long time span, had a complex structure, and involved a great number of actors. Chapter 1 studies the criteria according to which a territory could be attributed to Spanish or Portuguese rule. On the one hand, such attributions were based on treaties, papal bulls, and diplomatic documents; on the other, they increasingly relied on "performing jurisdictional acts" such as giving commissions, collecting taxes, or pursuing criminals, and on daily economic activities such as farming, grazing, gathering, hunting, or fishing. Both kinds of acts implied possession of the land, but they also needed to be understood and interpreted by others, whose silence could be taken

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