Название: Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Автор: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Издательство: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804787050
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 25,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance―paper―over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire.