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