A01=Manuel Perez-Garcia
Author_Manuel Perez-Garcia
Blood
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- ISBN 9781786837103
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2021
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The analysis of land management, lineage, and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how upper social classes arranged strategies to maintain their political and economic status. Rivalry and disputes between old factions and families were attached to the control and exercise of power. Blood, land management and honour were the main elements in these disputes. Honour, service to the crown, participation in the conquest and 'pure' blood (Catholic affiliation) were the main features of Spanish nobility. This book analyses the origins of the entailed-estate (mayorazgo) from medieval times to early modern period, as the main element that enables us to understand the socio-economic behaviour of these families over generations. This long-duree chronology within the Braudelian methodology of this research aims to show how strategies and family networks changed over time, demonstrating a micro-history study of daily life.
Manuel Perez-Garcia is Associate Professor at the Department of History, School of Humanities, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and is founder and director of the Global History Network in China (GHN).
