The Empirical Empire —— Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge

----- 经验帝国：西班牙殖民统治与知识政治

ISBN: 9783110375046 出版年：2016 页码：333 Brendecke, Arndt De Gruyter Oldenbourg

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.