From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) : Destruction and Construction of Societies.

Intro -- From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries): Destruction and Construction of Societies -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- One Conquest, Two Worlds: An Introduction -- Part 1: The Organisation of the Conquests: Political, Military and Financial Aspects -- 1 Partners-in-Arms. Medieval Military Associations: From the Iberian cabalgada to the American entrada -- 2 Council and Urban Militias in the Crown of Aragon during the 13th Century: From Conquering Militias to Monetary Exemptions -- 3 War and Booty as Incentives for Emigration: Tortosa and al-Andalus (12th-13th Centuries) -- 4 Medieval Factors in the Conquest of America: Organisation and War Practices in the Incursions into Darién -- 5 On the Use of Terror, Cruelty and Violence in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas: Some Thoughts -- Part 2: The Agrarian Organisation of the New Colonial Societies -- 6 Feudal Conquest and Colonisation: An Archaeological Insight into the Transformation of Andalusi Irrigated Spaces in the Balearic Islands -- 7 The Agrarian Model of Valencian Moriscos -- 8 Iberian Colonisations and Water Distribution Systems (15th-16th c.): A Comparative Approach -- 9 Commercial Crop or Plantation System? Sugar Cane Production from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic -- 10 Early Colonial Utilization and Management in Peru -- Part 3: The Political Organisation of the New Colonial Societies. The Management of the Conquered Populations and Lands -- 11 Servants, Slaves or Subjects? Jews, Muslims and Indians as Royal Property -- 12 The Kingdom of Granada: Between the Culmination of a Process and the Beginning of a New Age -- 13 Portugal, Morocco and Guinea: Reconfiguration of the North Atlantic at the End of the Middle Ages -- 14 The Peculiarity of the Spanish Empire: A Comparative Interpretation -- Index.

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early modern Americas.

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