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11 - The Iberian empires, 1400 to 1800

from Part Three - Large-scale political formations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Jorge Flores
Edited by
Jerry H. Bentley ,
Sanjay Subrahmanyam  and
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Jerry H. Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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This chapter deals with empires of Iberian in the period between 1400 and 1800, and begins by providing an overview of the early modern Iberian empires. The economies of the Iberian empires were dependent on a set of maritime networks that put the metropoles in contact with their several overseas markets. A systematic and radically definitive differentiation that can easily be applied to the way in which the overseas empire developed by the Portuguese has, for a long time, been compared to that of the Spanish. However, these exists between both similarities and connections also. Spanish America saw many viceroyalties, adding an imperial dimension to an institution that the monarchy had already put into place in its European kingdoms. Professing the 'right' religion, to be Christian, and Catholic, was a fundamental condition of the Portuguese and Spanish Empires.
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The Cambridge World History , pp. 271 - 296
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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