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Political Authority, Otherness, and Race in Iberian Early Modern Societies book cover

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Political Authority, Otherness, and Race in Iberian Early Modern Societies

By Jean-Frédéric Schaub Copyright 2026
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines how the Iberian empires of the early-modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics. Covering a variety of topics, Schaub analyzes the idea that the political regimes of the 15th-18th centuries did not have the characteristics of contemporary nation-states. It shows that control over... Read more

Part I Authority

 

1.      Authority and Obedience       

2.      Identification of the Lawyer: Conflicts of Authority in the Iberian Societies of the Seventeenth Century           

3.      Political Processes in Philip III’s Portugal      

 

Part II Otherness

 

4.      European Expansion and the Discovery of the Conqueror’s Fragility          

5.      From Domestic Barbarity to the Black Jew; Experiences of Otherness from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century     

 

Part III Race and Colonialism

 

6.      Race Relations in a Colonial, Not a Decolonial, Situation : The Iberian Empires       

7.      “Macula” as a Political Resource in Early-Modern Iberian Societies 

8.      Time and Race

9.      Accepting Asymmetry: How Historians Deal with Pluralism and Inequality 

Biography

Jean-Frédéric Schaub is a historian and teaches at the EHESS. Recent publications include Nous avons tous la même histoire. Le défi des identités (2024) with Silvia Sebastiani; Histoire de la race dans les sociétés occidentales, xve-xviiie siècle (2021) and Pour une histoire politique de la race (2015).

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