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1 - An Empire on the Move

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

Adolfo Polo y La Borda
Adolfo Polo y La Borda
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University of Nottingham
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This chapter deals with the physical and tangible aspects of the worldwide circulation of royal officials and exposes how the Spanish Empire developed an unheard of system of global mobility. After evaluating the dramatic changes in how people thought of distance, it sketches some of the major patterns of Spanish mobility and the new technologies that enabled such movement. This allows for discussing some novel material representations of the globe and the original worldly imaginings.

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Travel RoutesDistanceMapsCarrera de IndiasMobilityTechnologyShipsGlobal imagining
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Global Servants of the Spanish King
Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
 , pp. 26 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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