Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. PART I. TWO EMPIRES OF THE EAST
6. 2. An Imperial Caste: Inverted Racialization in the Architecture of Ottoman Sovereignty 27
7. 3. Hierarchies of Age and Gender in the Mughal Construction of Domesticity and Empire 48
8. PART II. SPAIN: CONQUISTA AND RECONQUISTA
9. 4. Race and the Middle Ages: The Case of Spain and Its Jews 71
10. 5. The Spanish Race 88
11. 6. The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: Spain, the Inquisition, and the Emerging Modern World 99
12. 7. Of Books, Popes, and Huacas; or, The Dilemmas of Being Christian 117
13. 8. The View of the Empire from the Altepetl: Nahua Historical and Global Imagination 150
14. 9. “Race” and “Class” in the Spanish Colonies of America: A Dynamic Social Perception 167
15. 10. Unfixing Race 188
16. PART III. DUTCH DESIGNS
17. 11. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia 205
18. 12. Rereading Theodore de Bry’s Black Legend 225
19. PART IV. BELATED ENGLAND
20. 13. West of Eden: American Gold, Spanish Greed, and the Discourses of English Imperialism 247
21. 14. Blackening “the Turk” in Roger Ascham’s A Report of Germany (1553) 270
22. 15. Nations into Persons 293
23. Afterword: What Does the Black Legend Have to Do with Race? 312
24. Notes 325
25. Bibliography 399
26. List of Contributors 447
27. Index 451