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In Writing the New World, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought. Revealing their narrative context, religious ideals, and political implications, Caraccioli shows how these sixteenth-century works promoted a distinct genre of philosophical wonder in service of an emerging colonial social order.Caraccioli discusses narrative techniques employed by well-known figures such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Bartolomé de Las Casas as well as less-studied authors including Bernardino de Sahagún, Francisco Hernández, and José de Acosta. More than mere catalogues of the natural wonders of the New World, these writings advocate mining and molding untapped landscapes, detailing the possibilities for extracting not just resources from the land but also new moral values from indigenous communities. Analyzing the intersections between politics, science, and faith that surface in these accounts, Caraccioli shows how the portrayal of nature served the ends of imperial domination.Integrating the fields of political theory, environmental history, Latin American literature, and religious studies, this book showcases Spain’s role in the intellectual formation of modernity and Latin America’s place as the crucible for the Scientific Revolution. Its insights are also relevant to debates about the interplay between politics and environmental studies in the Global South today.

Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Colonialism & imperialism

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Colonies --- Social systems. --- Sociology --- System theory --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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This book offers a view of shifts in labor relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions. How did growing demand for colonial commodities affect labor in the Global South? How did colonial interference with land and labor markets affect developments in labor relations? And what were the effects of the introduction of colonial currencies? The contributors to this volume answer those questions and more, combining global perspectives with impressively detailed case studies.

Industrial relations --- Colonies --- History. --- Economic aspects --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Comparative industrial relations. --- Economic history. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Labour history, colonialism, labour relations, institutions.

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1776 wurde in der niederländischen Republik ein Gesetz erlassen, dass ausschließlich für Schwarze Menschen und People of Color gelten sollte, die als Sklav*innen in die Niederlande kamen. Wie und warum geschah das? Was bedeutete das für die betroffenen Menschen und deren Lebensalltag? Anhand eines großen und in weiten Teilen bisher unerforschten Quellenkorpus geht Julia Holzmann diesen Fragen interdisziplinär und intersektional nach. Sie untersucht die enge Verflechtung zwischen Kolonien und Metropole sowie rechtlichen, sprachlichen und sozialen Praktiken, darunter auch Rassismus. Ihre biografischen Mikrostudien geben Einblick in die Geschichte Schwarzer Menschen und People of Color in den Niederlanden.

HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Colonialism. --- Cultural History. --- Early Modern History. --- Early Modernity. --- European History. --- Forced Migration. --- History of Colonialism. --- History. --- Intersectionality. --- Microhistory. --- Migration. --- Racism. --- Slavery. --- Society. --- The Netherlands. --- Violence.

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An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the north American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? This book is about the tomahawk and other objects like it, acquired in colonial contact zones and displayed by Swedish elites in the seventeenth century. Its first part situates the objects in two distinct but related spaces: the expanding space of the colonial world, and the exclusive space of the Kunstkammer. The second part traces the objects’ physical and epistemological transfer from the Kunstkammer to the modern museum system. In the final part, colonial objects are considered at the centre of a heated debate over the present state of museums, and their possible futures.

Antiquities. --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Imperialism. --- Colonial object, materiality, colonialism, Kunstkammer, museum, decolonisation.